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ＨＩＳＴＯＲＩＣＡＬ　ＦＡＣＴＳ Siberian Bear Hunting Armor 🐻 So while this suit might be authentic, given it’s inclusion in a cabinet of curiosity and it’s previous ownership by a surrealist it’s hard to say if it really was a suit of armor used for bear hunting. There has been some uncertainty over this object’s culture of origin and its originally intended purpose. While it is now thought to have originated in eighteenth-, or nineteenth-century Germany or Switzerland, this costume presumably represents a folk figure seen in the Vogel Gryff Festival in Basel, but it has also been considered a bear hunting costume. Based on this, the suit could have been used for hunting bears, but also just as likely was used as a Wilder Mann costume in the Vogel Gryff Festival (Vogel Gryff in Basel). Source: https://www.vintag.es/2017/07/siberian-bear-hunting-armor-from-1800s.html?m=1