Bear Claws Bath Towel Shirod Younker Anishinaabe-Ojibwe artist Giizh Agaton Howes

Anishinaabe-Ojibwe artist Giizh Agaton Howes has adapted and woven this iconic design across her new Bed Linen Collection

which historically carried all manner of items and today are used mostly for special occasions

fashion designer

John has taken the geometric designs traditional to parfleche—decorated rawhide containers used by Plains tribes—and combined them with contemporary colors for a beautifully bold accessory

Bear Claws Bath Towel Shirod Younker Anishinaabe-Ojibwe artist Giizh Agaton HowesWhether 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