Bear Claw Necklace Antique beads replica

Description

Native American Grizzly bear claw necklace

Grizzly Bear Claw replica necklace with Antique beads

Twenty hand-made faux Plains grizzly bear claws are attached to and spaced around the red trade wool cloth core. ( faux precedents in museum collections)

Although the claws were molded with a proprietary substance and are technically identical, each claw has individual characteristics.

Five layers of color and other coatings were used to enhance the depth of each claw, to accentuate the individual claw differences,

and to create the blackened usually dirty aged underside that a real claw would have from constant contact with soil and normal usage.

The claws are spaced with antique trade beads and other antique beads. The idea is to keep as traditional and use the old methods and

materials to build the necklace so all of the thred is silk the main line thread is braded cotton with beeswax or in places we have used real deer sinew.