#morituri
Three facts about this whalebone walking stick with skull pommel:
1. It has green glass eyes.
2. It was owned by Charles Darwin.
3. Darwin called it his “morituri”: a type of memento mori (objects that remind their owners of the shortness of human life and the inevitability of death).
See this object for yourself in our #MedicineMan gallery.
aaaah, this is so cool! Darwin’s skull-topped walking stick. I am dying.
Charles Darwin died at age 73.
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