Cane
- Object Name:
- Cane
- Object ID:
- 1906.005.08
- Place of Origin:
- Boscawen, NH
- Date:
- circa 1899
- Description:
- Cane. Oak. Taken from a tree at spot where Hannah Dustin killed ten Indians. Dark colored, slightly knotty oak with flat top and short ferrule. Written on the top in ink, "408". Wood and steel. Shaft diameter at top: 0.75". Largest part of ferrule 0.55" diameter. Plated steel ferrule, 0.55" long, with round-head slotted screw holding it in place at bottom end. About six small branch stubs sticking out of sides, slightly rounded over. A number of longitudinal, rounded striations along shaft.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Steel
Oak - Dimensions:
- W-1.6 L-36.2 D-1 inches Weight-6.3 oz
- Provenance:
- Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #408: "Cane cut from Oak growing above spot, Sept. 9th 1899" (refers to entry #407, "spot where Hannah Duston killed ten Indians...").
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- Subjects:
- Canes, Oaks, Native Americans
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