Grizzly bear

A typical piece of Canadiana: a thin wooden bookmarks with the head of a grizzly bear carved into it. This is a page-top marker, that is, the wood is sliced, so that the bookmark sitas atop the page rather than between pages.
 The grizzly bear, also known as the silvertip bear, the grizzly, or the North American brown bear, is a subspecies of brown bear  that generally lives in the uplands of western North America. This subspecies is thought to descend from Ussuri brown bears which crossed to Alaska from eastern Russia 100,000 years ago, though they did not move south until 13,000 years ago. ^More...

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