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Bear Claws Bath Towel

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Bear Claws Bath Towel

  • $35.00

Whether you like your showers hotter than an angry Grizzly or prefer a plunge fit for a polar bear, you'll love drying off after with our Bear Claws Bath Towel, designed by Piikani/Blackfeet artist and Inspired Natives® Collaborator John Isaiah Pepion. 

“This Bear Claws design is influenced by the war shirts of the Blackfeet and Plains peoples,” shares John. “There were different ways to earn a war shirt, from going to war, telling a story, or stealing horses, and some had special powers, like being bulletproof.” The cross or plus sign in this design represents the Morning Star, while the sharp triangles represent bear claws. “The claws are from the Grizzly bear,” John says. “Grizzlies are one of the most sacred and powerful animals for Blackfeet people. They represent protection, medicine, and power." 

In muted gray and white, our bath towels are perfect as a matching set, or add even more visual interest with mix-and-match patterns while staying visually cohesive through their muted palette. Plush and absorbent, not to mention authentically Native designed, Eighth Generation's bath towels are the perfect merger of form and function.

Product details: 

  • 30 in x 60 in / 76.2 cm x 152.4 cm
  • 100% cotton
  • White and grey 
  • Native designed in the USA; manufactured in India 

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about the artist

My name is John Isaiah Pepion, and I am a Plains Indian graphic artist from the Piikani Band of the Blackfoot Confederacy. I'm based out of the Blackfeet reservation in north-central Montana, where the Rocky Mountains meet the plains. I am best known for my ledger art, which is an art tradition that developed in Plains tribes: as the buffalo hide we traditionally used for painting became scarce, Plains people were forced to adapt by making artwork on ledger paper from accounting books. I come from a family of artists, and ledger art has been in my family for hundreds of years.

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