Paul St John, Mohawk artist has made a small suede deer hide medicine pouch. These are to be worn around the neck or tied onto a belt (or your backpack, pocketbook etc) There is an antique French brass bead used for the closure for the bag's flap. (He has made a few similar bags recently - of moose hide and of elk hide. The different hides make for different textures and color - interested? Check them out in this eBay store, search for "medicine bag" or "bag Paul St John")
This like all of Paul's medicine bags has been hand-cut and hand-sewn (so there are slight differences in the size of these little medicine bags.) This is his only deerhide bag & it has such soft sueded leather and rich rust color. With the flap closed this bag is about 3.5" long, the width at top of bag (not flap) is 2.75" and the strap is 21" long from top side of bag at it's attachment point to center back of strap. (you could tie a knot at top to shorten it). The flap is 1.75" long and closes over the top front of the bag.
Wabanaki & Iroquois traditionally made and used various types of bags, medicine bags and shoulder bags, of varying styles, sizes, materials and designs.