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Presentation Cane
Unknown Artist/Maker1860 (date of inscription)
The Jewish Museum, New York
New York, United States
This scrimshawed cane was presented to Commander Uriah Phillips Levy, United States Navy, by the crew of his ship, the USS Macedonian. Levy was responsible for the abolition of corporal punishment in the Navy and for restoring Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello.
Source: The Jewish Museum, New York, 2009.
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Details
- Title: Presentation Cane
- Creator: Unknown Artist/Maker
- Date Created: 1860 (date of inscription)
- Location: United States, North and Central America
- Place Part Of: North and Central America
- Physical Dimensions: w51 x h851 x d51 cm
- Culture: United States
- Credit Line: Purchase: Eva and Morris Feld Judaica Acquisitions Fund, Daniel M. Friedenberg, Jack Tepper, Mildred and George Weissman, Isaac Pollak, and Kurt Thalberg Gifts, 1990-7
- Type: Ceremonial Art-Miscellaneous
- Rights: https://thejewishmuseum.org/about-this-site#image-research-requests
- Medium: Whalebone: inlaid with baleen, wood and mother-of-pearl; sperm whale tooth
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