Medicine Bag
The medicine bag is a small hide pouch carried or kept privately by many Plains and Woodlands people, holding the herbs, feathers, stones, roots or small objects revealed to its owner in a vision or dream. Unlike the communal sacred bundles kept by whole clans or societies, such as the Lakota pipe bundle, the medicine bag is personal: its contents are chosen by the spirits for one individual and are usually kept secret. Its power, elders say, depends on how faithfully the owner follows the instructions that came with the vision, and careless handling is believed to drain or endanger that power