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.  


You can use this as part of your regalia,  wear it around your neck under or over your shirt/blouse with traditional herbal or current medication - or money or whatever you like --- Or use it as a  display piece.

Paul St. John now lives in Maine, near his mother's Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac relatives.  He is an enrolled Mohawk and grew up on the Mohawk lands in New York, his father's tribe.   2nd from last photo in slideshow is of Paul St John and 2 of his other works.  Paul from his father's side has learned Iroquois culture, crafts and legends (Mohawk one of the 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy) and from his mother's side Paul has learned  Passamaquoddy, Maliseet & MicMac culture, crafts & legends (Passamaquoddy, Maliseet & MicMac, 3 of the 5 Nations of the Wabanaki) ...  

Paul St John also makes birchbark, porcupine quill and coiled sweetgrass baskets, beaded knife cases, traditional dolls, water drums, birch bark rattles, beaded barrettes and moccasins among numerous other traditional crafts - check out more of his work in this ebay store.