Native American Crow Rock Medicine Bundle
Crow Rock Medicine
“Bacoritse”
To the Crows, any particularly shaped rock or a fossil found on the surface of the
earth was sacred, but only one appearing in a dream or a vision became
“medicine”.
Rock medicines are divided into male and female.
Female “rocks” are egg-shaped pebbles, gatrolites or fosiilized ammonites.
Male “rocks” are often fossilized section of baculites, an extinct shelled mollusk, or
rocks with somewhat sharp, pointed edges.
The importance of these personal medicines depended of the success they
brought to their owners. Consequently some would attain sacredness. Most rock
medicines had more than one power such as success in war, horse stealing, good
health, calling buffalo or even to bring good luck in gambling!
If taken on the warpath it was worn around the owner’s neck under his war shirt.
As soon as the enemy was sighted the medicine was pull out and worn above the
shirt or on the warrior’s bare chest.
This rock medicine’s ornamentation is predominantly of glass beads fastened to
the fringes attached to the deerskin wrapped to the “rock”. Weasel skin strips are
also added as well as two brass buttons and a hide neck strap. Rock medicine
decorated with only glass beads were used, as a rule, for the owner and his family
good luck and good health.
Ref: William Wildschut
Size:
Circa: Last half 19th century
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