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Ceremonial Native American Bear Skin

Currency:USD Category:Hunting / Furs Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD
Ceremonial Native American Bear Skin
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400.00USD+ (96.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2017 Oct 20 @ 13:39UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Bear skin, lined with scalloped blue felt on edges. Head cutout, 86” x 57”. The St’at’imc also known as the Lillooet are an Interior Salish people located in the southern Coast Mountains and Fraser Canyon region of the Interior of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The cultural expressions of the St’at’imc are a very important aspect of the St’at’imc with songs, dances and the social interactions of the people. The Grizzly Bear dance is an expression of culture that is unique and authentic. “I walked where the Grizzly Bear dances. I feel his pleasure, excitement and freedom on the earth and in the wind that carries his messages from the past. I dance where the Grizzly Bear danced his steps leaving an ancestral footprint on the land like a cellular memory in my blood. His face is a shadow that calls to me as the wind calls his name “St’alhalam.” The Grizzly Bear he sings his songs as we unite under his skin. I now walk where he left his ancestral footprints. I heard his prayer, I felt his pain, I am his anger, I am his hope, I am his faith. He now dances upon the earth, now, only where I leave my ancestral footprints.” (Quote from Kukwstumckacw, PowWows.com) City: State: Date: HWAC# 51636