Artist/Maker
Maker once known
Title
L-handle Panbone Cane
Date1800s
Mediumwhale skeletal bone, whale ivory, baleen
Dimensions3 7/8 × 3/4 × 33 1/2 in. (9.8 × 1.9 × 85.1 cm)
Object number00.22.2
Institutional Credit LineCourtesy of the New Bedford Whaling Museum
DescriptionSlightly tapered panbone shaft, surmounted by four disc bands of baleen alternating with three wider bands of sperm whale ivory; L-shaed panbone handle at a right angle to the shaft; unknown core.On View
On view
19th Century
19th Century
