This ancient cane has a handle made out of rib bone from an extinct mammal, the Steller's Sea Cow. The Steller's Sea Cow went extinct in the late 1700's due to over hunting just a few decades after the animal was first discovered by western explorers. The bone used in this cane was discovered by the Inuit people on St. Lawrence island in the Bering Sea, it is an ancient bone that was excavated from ancient Inuit hunting grounds. The bone is likely several thousand years old. The Steller's Sea Cow was the largest animal of its kind and the bones are denser than any other marine animal. In defense of the hungry explorers, Steller's Sea cow was on decline as a species since the last ice age and it was almost extinct naturally. None the less, It remains to tell the story of how fragile nature is sometimes.

The handle is decorated with 7 pieces of colorful green malachite stone from the Congo, Africa, along with brass metal accents. The shaft is another ancient rarity, but far older than even the handle, its a piece of wood from an ancient kauri tree that was buried in the ground for 40,000 years in Northern New Zealand. Wood like this is called "sinker" wood. A tree lives a typical life span but when it dies and falls it is covered in peat moss or falls into a bog, both of which create an oxygen deprived environment that perfectly preserves the wood. Ancient Kauri is the oldest "workable" wood in the world, the only wood that is older is petrified wood which is no longer wood but stone.

Total length measures 38 inches and can be shortened to fit.
The cane is perfectly functional but care should be used to prevent chipping the malachite end stones. A wrist strap is recommended.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Extinct Steller's Sea Cow Rib Bone
Divider – Malachite from the Congo and brass
Shaft – Ancient Kauri from New Zealand
Rubber tip