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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A model of a Burmese dugout canoe made entirely in wood the exterior of which has been stained and varnished. The hull appears to have been made from a single piece of wood and the hull shape is long and narrow with a shallow draught. There is a slight sheer to the stern and the foredeck is flat with a blunt bow. There is provision for seventeen thwarts (three recorded missing in 1977). A gunwale edge on the starboard side is fitted with a covering board of which the starboard stern part is missing and the entire port side covering board is missing.
TRIM Reference GEN/36313. Three thwarts and considerable parts of covering board missing September 1977.
caption: Burmese Dugort Canoe - port broadside
caption: Burmese Dugort Canoe - three quarter port bow
caption: Burmese Dugort Canoe - starboard stern quarter
caption: Ethnographic boat model | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | boats models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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