This ancient cane is quite a special one, is has three different ancient materials that all have their own stories to tell. The 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 native 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.

The divider and end piece on the handle are the rarest pieces of the cane, they are leg bone from a less well-known extinct ice age animal known as the woolly rhino. The woolly rhino roamed across Europe during the last ice age. These pieces of bone were excavated from the Siberian permafrost and are at least 10,000 years old.

The shaft is actually the oldest ancient material, it is Kauri wood form Northern New Zealand. This Kauri wood has been buried in the ground for 40,000 years! That's right, this wood dates back to the earliest cave paintings at approximately 40,000 BC. For perspective, The Bering land bridge between Alaska and Russia broke apart approximately 20,000 years ago and the ice age ended 10,000 years ago. It's hard to fathom 40,000 years! 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.

Kauri wood is the only part of the cane that isn’t extinct, Kauri trees still grow in New Zealand today.

Total length measures 38" and can be shortened to fit.

M A T E R I A L S

Handle – Extinct Steller's Sea Cow Rib Bone
Divider – Extinct Woolly Rhino leg bone
Shaft – Ancient Kauri Wood from NZ.
Rubber tip