For International Polar Bear Day we present this bear embroidered in silk, made in Japan around 1900

For International Polar Bear Day we present this bear embroidered in silk, made in Japan around 1900. One of many fascinating illustrations in Ice Bear: The Cultural History of an Arctic Icon (2017).

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