medicine bundle

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among the Plains Indians, a bundle of objects believed to have magical powers for protecting the bearer or band against harm.

Quotations

1936

Wherever they went they carried with them a medicine pipe and bundle upon the back of a milk-white steed.

1949

Weeks later, Mrs. Prairie Fire's medicine bundle lay with dozens of other specimens on the long study table in my laboratory.

1965

Frequently, pairs [of buffalo stones] were kept in medicine bundles, where it is thought that they would procreate.