Real Bear Claw Necklaces

Real Bear Claw Necklaces

Enjoy and wear your Bear Claw Necklace with pride and respect.

Our bear claws when measured from the tip of the nail along the outside curve to the bone measure ~ 2+”.

Our necklaces are beautiful and handcrafted. Each necklace is made to emphasize with respect the claw(s), teeth, or bone pendant. Each necklace is unique.

The necklace string used is 100% cotton and is coated in beeswax.

The necklace string has been finished off with two slip knots so the necklace can be worn at a choker length of ~ 24” or a longer length of 34”+.

We use all-natural bead products made of wood, stone, bone, and horn Beads of all shapes and sizes are used in different patterns to distinguish each necklace, but not all materials may be used with each necklace. 

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The Bear

Native American tribes hunted bears for food, and clothing and kept the claws to be used in bear claw jewelry. Bear claw jewelry was to be worn with respect to the great beast that had sacrificed its life. Bear claw jewelry is a tribute to the bear and is worn as a symbol of power, and protection against enemies and illness.

Enjoy and wear your Real Bear Claw Necklace with pride and respect.

Tribal Canoe Source Statement

Tribal Canoe cares and respects wildlife as much as you do. We need to have a healthy sustainable animal population to ensure the survival of all species so future generations can enjoy the advantages of our complete North American wildlife.

All feathers, bird parts (eg. full wings, tails), leather, animal fur, and animal parts are ethically sourced from legally registered companies within Canada and the United States. These companies source both animal and avian parts from registered licensed hunters, trappers, and Native communities within Canada and the United States.

How do you put a cost on a claw?

Each rendered part (meat, hide, bone, tooth, claw, etc.) is natural and one-of-a-kind. We can not forecast the quantity and quality of each part as our supplier does not have a quota but is only supplied when or if an animal has met his or her fate.

The cost for any of these natural products is the time needed to prepare and process each item for proper use or display.

First, you have the time to hunt, or in most cases of our supplier, the animal has been killed due to being a nuisance or has been involved in an accident, then the time to process the meat, fur, bones, teeth, claws, etc. For claws, teeth, and bones you have to remove (clean) all the hair, skin, meat, fat, and tendons from each item, then disinfect by boiling, with alcohol, with Borax or hydrogen peroxide, the items are left to dry in borax or salt.

Before the claws are ready for display, the claws are cleaned again then we add a coat of sealer and hardener. We added the sealer and hardener as each claw had become brittle and porous, which was caused by the disinfectants and drying process.