Carved Cane Depicting Animal and Human Heads United States, c. 1870 Multi-pronged handle carved to depict an eagle, a man with long beard, a bear, and a dog, the base clutched in the jaws of a reptile head at the top of a tapered shaft retaining bark and brass ferrule at tip, later varnish surface, overall wd. 9, ht. 38 3/4 in. Footnotes: Provenance Collection of Eddi Van Auken, California. Literature Illustrated in Vertical Art: The Enduring Beauty of Antique Canes and Walking Sticks (2008), cat. no. 175. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing