DCHP-3

medicine pouch

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bag or pouch, often decorated with beadwork, used by the Indians to carry various objects believed to have magical powers in protecting the bearer from harm.

Quotations

1931
Great fighting chiefs of former days carried medicine pouches containing a few bits of feathers and small bones. . . .