This bear figurine, carved in amber, is in the collection of The National Museum in Szczecin, one of nine national museums in Poland.
According to the Museum, this amazing looking bear figurine is part of a group of objects found in Western Pomerania that date between 5000 and 2000 BCE.
Among goods of daily use, such as pottery, tools and weapons made of flint and rock, accessories of bone and antlers, worth noting is an amulet made of amber: a figurine of a bear, which was found in the area of Slupsk. This unique find combines simplicity with apt representation of the shape of an animal displaying exceptionally soft lines and elegance of form highlighted by the character and colour of the raw material.
