A small rectangular rug featuring a polar bear on an ice floe. The polar bear is worked in white wool(?) with a black outline. He stands on an ice floe worked in creamy-white or very light beige with aqua edges. The background sky is worked in shades of grey-blue and the sea in shades of blue-green. A white half sun (faded yellow as seen on the reverse) is setting to the right of the picture. The scene is surrounded by a narrow white border approximately 1/4' wide within a wider black border 1-5/8' wide. The rug is worked in fine evenly hooked uncut rayon (or silk) jersey pile (with the exception of the polar bear which appears to be worked in cut wool pile) on a jute burlap ground.