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<p>[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 48593, member: 45"]This has all the characteristics of a Chinese knock-off of a traditional Native American or Canadian First Nations carving. The treatment of the eyes is nearly always a telling feature...the copies never seem to get that part "right." But I can't say what the stone is. I would doubt if they import it, however.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would add, however, that similar, smaller bears like this are being made in Pakistan, and being sold as "Zuni fetishes." Just this weekend I saw a whole tray of them at a flea market on the West Coast, most with their tiny gummed stickers saying "made in Pakistan" still attached.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Taupou, post: 48593, member: 45"]This has all the characteristics of a Chinese knock-off of a traditional Native American or Canadian First Nations carving. The treatment of the eyes is nearly always a telling feature...the copies never seem to get that part "right." But I can't say what the stone is. I would doubt if they import it, however. I would add, however, that similar, smaller bears like this are being made in Pakistan, and being sold as "Zuni fetishes." Just this weekend I saw a whole tray of them at a flea market on the West Coast, most with their tiny gummed stickers saying "made in Pakistan" still attached.[/QUOTE]
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