Product Overview
POLAR BEAR CLAWS are harvested from bears taken by Inupiaq Eskimo Hunters. Unlike "head hunters", they use all the animal. It's meat is divided up in the community. The hide/teeth/claws /skull are used in artwork. Polar bears are never killed for pleasure or for a trophy. All those taken are tracked by the State gov. Inupiaq Eskimos of the North Slope are the only people in the U.S allowed to hunt the polar bear for subsistence purposes. This is a fine example of Native Alaskan art. This bear claw was mounted on a carved piece of walrus ivory with baleen pieces for the eyes and the nose. Baleen and walrus ivory pieces are also used as the beads.
The piece is 20" in total length, the claw itself and the carving - 3".
