Carry your tobacco pouch with you wherever you go — to leave an offering, for protection, as a reminder. This tobacco pouch is handcrafted from Jalisco goat hide and has been prefilled with NATIVE brand tobacco.
Sewn, dyed, assembled by us. Con respeto.
Materials: Jalisco goat hide, deer leather suede, cotton cord, cattle bone beads, mescal beans (for further protection from unwanted energies), naturally dyed coyote foot bone, naturally dyed red-ochre cotton pouch, tabaco, and sinew.
Additional information on bundling medicines:
The origin of the tlaquimilolli—literally “that which is bundled”—was tied to the sacrifice and transformation of the fearsome goddess Itzpapalotl. After being slain by two Cloud Serpent demigods, she instructed her followers to cremate her body and bind her ashes, bones, and sacred flint into a deerskin wrapping. From within this god bundle, she continued to speak for centuries, guiding the Chichimecah in their migrations until they reached Anahuac and founded Tollan, marking the rise of the Toltecah.
Such bundles were more than reliquaries; they embodied divine presence, authority, and continuity, serving as mobile temples that conferred legitimacy upon leaders and connected human communities to cosmic forces. The Nahuatl term emphasizes their material form—ashes, stones, and skins tied together—but their true power lay in the knowledge that gods and ancestors lived within them, animating ritual life and political order.
This understanding finds close parallels among many Native nations of North America. The Niitsítapi (Blackfoot), for example, maintain sacred bundles gifted to them by the Creator, each containing objects imbued with spiritual potency and used in ceremonies to renew the world. Likewise, the Lakȟóta recount how White Buffalo Calf Woman (sometimes called Red Day Woman) bestowed the čhaŋnúŋpa (sacred pipe) and bundles that carried her continuing presence. In both cases, as with the tlaquimilolli, the bundle mediates between human beings and the divine, providing a tangible locus of revelation, guidance, and communal identity. Though separated by geography and culture, these traditions reflect a widespread Indigenous understanding: that holiness can be condensed into portable, wrapped vessels of power, ensuring that the voices of gods, ancestors, and spirits accompany their people wherever they go.
Carry your tobacco pouch with you wherever you go — to leave an offering, for protection, as a reminder. This tobacco pouch is handcrafted from Jalisco goat hide and has been prefilled with NATIVE brand tobacco.
Sewn, dyed, assembled by us. Con respeto.
Materials: Jalisco goat hide, deer leather suede, cotton cord, cattle bone beads, mescal beans (for further protection from unwanted energies), naturally dyed coyote foot bone, naturally dyed red-ochre cotton pouch, tabaco, and sinew.
Additional information on bundling medicines:
The origin of the tlaquimilolli—literally “that which is bundled”—was tied to the sacrifice and transformation of the fearsome goddess Itzpapalotl. After being slain by two Cloud Serpent demigods, she instructed her followers to cremate her body and bind her ashes, bones, and sacred flint into a deerskin wrapping. From within this god bundle, she continued to speak for centuries, guiding the Chichimecah in their migrations until they reached Anahuac and founded Tollan, marking the rise of the Toltecah.
Such bundles were more than reliquaries; they embodied divine presence, authority, and continuity, serving as mobile temples that conferred legitimacy upon leaders and connected human communities to cosmic forces. The Nahuatl term emphasizes their material form—ashes, stones, and skins tied together—but their true power lay in the knowledge that gods and ancestors lived within them, animating ritual life and political order.
This understanding finds close parallels among many Native nations of North America. The Niitsítapi (Blackfoot), for example, maintain sacred bundles gifted to them by the Creator, each containing objects imbued with spiritual potency and used in ceremonies to renew the world. Likewise, the Lakȟóta recount how White Buffalo Calf Woman (sometimes called Red Day Woman) bestowed the čhaŋnúŋpa (sacred pipe) and bundles that carried her continuing presence. In both cases, as with the tlaquimilolli, the bundle mediates between human beings and the divine, providing a tangible locus of revelation, guidance, and communal identity. Though separated by geography and culture, these traditions reflect a widespread Indigenous understanding: that holiness can be condensed into portable, wrapped vessels of power, ensuring that the voices of gods, ancestors, and spirits accompany their people wherever they go.
