OK hitting someone with a club takes no skill. Most humans know they can hurt someone by hitting them with something by age 2 or 3.Your hand goes under the cut off bear s hand. You swing it cuts people... again no skill needed.Throwing a tomahawk is they only thing you would need to work at.Your guy can throw knives in the main game.
got me there with the war club but still the courier would not have normally came across them so....and how would he know what to do with the Bear Claw glove in that case, since he/she mostly travels NCR territory and i do not think NCR use Bear gloves and war clubs.
but i still say the moral is sticking to your roots and Courier has some tribal in his/her family as we do not know their background. the use of those, i admit might be common sense but still the courier would still had to have seen the stuff before to understand what they are.
and you still need some understanding of the weapon even if no skill is needed:
Warclub=need to know how had to hit and where to kill someone and not break the club in one hit
Bear fist=most fist weapons you PUNCH with, not swing to cut someone, most likely the courier would try to puncture people.