Medicine bag

A medicine bag is a traditional North American Aboriginal/Native container for various items of supernatural power. While anyone may have one, usually it would be the medicine man or shaman of a tribe who would carry one. As something that holds supernatural items, the medicine bag must also have some power of its own. They most often held things such as animal furs, special stones, or anything that meant something to the owner. No person, apart from the owner, was allowed to look inside this bag. When the owner died, they were buried with it.