Best Seal Fur & seal skin Leather Products

 All seal fur & seal skin products sold on the Proudly Indigenous Crafts & Design online store are certified “Proudly Indigenous”

seal skin: Seal skins have been used by aboriginal people for millennia to make waterproof jackets and boots, and seal fur to make fur coats. Sailors used to have tobacco pouches made from sealskin. Canada, Greenland, Norway, Russia and Namibia all export sealskin. It was traditionally used to make Scottish sporrans.The Inuit people indigenous to Canada and Alaska argue that banning seal products is detrimental to their way of life.However, there are many objections to the use of seal skin, fur and pelts, and it is illegal to hunt seals in many countries, particularly young seals. The value of global sealskin exports in 2006 was over 16 million Canadian dollars.

Seal Fur & Leather Products: Traditionally, seal fur and leather (seal skin) were used to protect Inuit, indigenous and other coastal communities from elements. Today, artisans and designers are using it as a sustainable solution for both function and fashion.  On the Proudly Indigenous Crafts & Designs (PIC&D) online store, each pelt’s natural patterns and colours are celebrated and showcased. This includes accessories, clothing, footwear, mukluks, and home decors.

Seal Skin Products: proud to offer the finest in seal skins that Canadian Sealers harvest. Origin Assured Label. “OA” attached  provide assurance that the fur product comes from a country where national or local regulations of standards governing fur production are in force. Developed by the International Fur Trade Federation (IFTF), the OA label confirms our commitment to openness and honesty with consumers about responsible industry practices. Registered Trademark and is fully protected under International laws regarding copyright and intellectual property rights.  No production or re-production of designs, patterns, photos   will be allowed without the written consent from proudlyindigenouscrafts. proudly displaying this label are assured that this item is manufactured in Canada by the companies’ Master Furriers in accordance with Canadian Labour Standards, Canadian Environmental Processing and Tanning Standards, and Canadian law governing the use of fur in its products.

Trace-ability – proudlyindigenouscrafts is fully committed to the trace-ability of all furs used in the production of our products. Trace-ability means source  of fur origin is proven to come from producers that meet Domestic, Federal, Provincial and International Standards for Animal Husbandry or Trapping or Harvesting to the consumer and every step along the way. Each time the skin moves from one location to another there is a Government issued Wildlife  Export Permit to accompany it for proof of legal harvest and possession.

Fur seals: Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds belonging to the subfamily Arctocephalinae in the family Otariidae. They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears (pinnae), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours. They are marked by their dense underfur, which made them a long-time object of commercial hunting. Eight species belong to the genus Arctocephalus and are found primarily in the Southern Hemisphere, while a ninth species also sometimes called fur seal, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), belongs to a different genus and inhabits the North Pacific.

Fur seals and sea lions make up the family Otariidae. Along with the Phocidae and Odobodenidae, ottariids are pinnipeds descending from a common ancestor most closely related to modern bears (as hinted by the subfamily Arctocephalinae, meaning "bear-headed"). The name pinniped refers to mammals with front and rear flippers. Otariids arose about 15-17 million years ago in the Miocene, and were originally land mammals that rapidly diversified and adapted to a marine environment, giving rise to the semiaquatic marine mammals that thrive today. Fur seals and sea lions are closely related and commonly known together as the "eared seals". Until recently, fur seals were all grouped under a single subfamily of Pinnipedia, called the Arctocephalinae, to contrast them with Otariinae – the sea lions – based on the most prominent common feature, namely the coat of dense underfur intermixed with guard hairs. Recent genetic evidence, however, suggests Callorhinus is more closely related to some sea lion species, and the fur seal/sea lion subfamily distinction has been eliminated from many taxonomies. Nonetheless, all fur seals have certain features in common: the fur, generally smaller sizes, farther and longer foraging trips, smaller and more abundant prey items, and greater sexual dimorphism. For these reasons, the distinction remains useful. Fur seals comprise two genera: Callorhinus, and Arctocephalus. Callorhinus is represented by just one species in the Northern Hemisphere, the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), and Arctocephalus is represented by eight species in the Southern Hemisphere. The southern fur seals comprising the genus Arctocephalus include Antarctic fur seals, Galapagos fur seals, Juan Fernandez fur seals, New Zealand fur seals, brown fur seals, South American fur seals, and subantarctic fur seals.

All seal fur & seal skin products sold on the Proudly Indigenous Crafts & Design online store are certified “Proudly Indigenous”. This includes meeting a strict criteria and guidelines ensuring their authenticity, standards of quality and traceability.

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