Wasn't quite what I was looking for, but close. At the time I did remove the head from the hide to get a bear pelt, but I wasn't allowed to in any way change it into a generic pelt or do anything else with the pelt besides make armor with it. However, since the game has received a patch (v1.21.1 stable), you can now take a knife to the headless bear pelt to get the following:
Black Bear Pelt + knife = 2 large pelts
Brown Bear Pelt + knife = 2 huge pelts
Panda Bear Pelt + knife = 1 large pelt
Polar Bear Pelt + knife = 3 huge pelts
Sen Bear Pelt + knife = 1 large pelt
1 huge hide + knife to the left = one fur coat
1 huge hide + knife on top = one pair of fur boots
1 huge hide + knife to the right = one pair of fur gloves
Pulverizer might do it, but I've never had a reason to try that and you very likely wont have one. You'll either have to find more copper nuggets on the surface, or you'll have to pan sand or gravel for copper ore nuggets. Once you have 20 copper nuggets, you can cast a hammer in a hammer mold in a similar way to which you made your pickaxe. The hammer mold is made from clay, and needs to be fired before use.
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labtop 215's post in Can I still get raw "huge hide" from bears in the 1.21.0 update was marked as the answer