- Object Name:
- Presentation Cane
- Place Made:
- United States
- Date:
- 1860 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Whalebone: inlaid with baleen, wood and mother-of-pearl; sperm whale tooth
- Dimensions:
- 33 1/2 × 2 × 2 in. (85.1 × 5.1 × 5.1 cm)
- 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
- Accession Number:
- 1990-7
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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.
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