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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A model of a Burmese Laung-Zat or rice boat. The model is made entirely in wood, and has been varnished a mahogany colour. It is unrigged with a dugout, flat bottomed hull which has a high sculpted bow and stern. There is a steersman's platform aft with a rudder rigged to the port quarter. There are outriggers along both gunwales that are also used as gangways fore and aft, and there are a pair of oars stowed at the aft deck. There is a deck house with an upward sloping pitched roof. The model is equipped with a pair of oars and what appears to be two quants. On a plaque is inscribed: 'Burmese Paddy Boat'.
TRIM Reference GEN/36339. Burmese Laung-Zat or rice boats were used on the Irrawaddy River.
caption: Burmese rice boat - port broadside
caption: Burmese rice boat - bow three quarter
caption: Burmese rice boat - stern quarter
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Royal Naval Museum Greenwich boats models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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