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Black Bear Claw Necklace89.52.15

The Elizabeth Cole Butler Collection.

Culture
Plains
Material
bear claw, glass and shell disc bead
Made in
“Plains” ?
Holding Institution
Portland Art Museum
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Headdress3051/6

Bear claw headdress. Thick leather strip, stitched at the ends with 13 long, curved bear claws sewn on with sinew at their proximal ends. Distal ends are blunted and a small hole has been bored through each tip for cotton string to pass through, connecting the claws to each other in a circle. Several claws have come unattached to the string, and several are missing.

Culture
Gitxsan
Material
bear claw, leather skin, cotton fibre and sinew
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bear Paw, For Bear Dancer16/4790
Belt With Claw Pendants60/6732
Necklace, Shaman's19/375

THE TLINGIT INDIANS, BY GEORGE T. EMMONS. GEORGE T. EMMONS; DE LAGUNA, FREDERICA (ED) ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS, 70, 1991

Culture
Tlingit: Sitka
Material
bear claw and sinew
Made in
Sitka, Baranof Island, Sitka Borough, Alaska, USA
Holding Institution
American Museum of Natural History
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