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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joan, post: 9589059, member: 5398&quot;]I really appreciate and value everyone&#039;s thoughts and comments. I live in Wisconsin and the badger is our state animal, so their claws can&#039;t be sold or shipped here. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was especially interested in the idea mentioned by Taupou that maybe the claw was intentionally left off, and why bear claws would never have been used by a &quot;traditional&quot; Navajo. I plan to contact one of the galleries, as Debora mentioned, and see if they would ask Mr. Gordon about the pendant&#039;s missing claw. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the meantime, I remembered that I have a necklace with a claw in my tray of fetish necklaces, so I showed it to my husband and he thinks with a little trimming and reshaping he could make it fit around the turquoise. He made silver jewelry in an art metals class years ago, is a woodworker/carver, and also a hunter so he knows a little about animal claws. If I decide to have him give it a try and it turns out okay, I&#039;d attach a note to the pendant that the claw is a replacement.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand...maybe the claw on the fetish necklace is a bear claw and would never have been used in Navajo jewelry, as Taupou mentioned. Here&#039;s a picture--it may look a little smaller than it actually is.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]463853[/ATTACH] </p><p>I&#039;d rather see a nice carved stone--maybe like a polished brown stone that I saw in other Delbert Gordon pieces, but I don&#039;t want to invest much more into the piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll let you know if/when I get a response from one of the galleries about whether the space was intentionally left empty, or if not, what would have been used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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