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Description: | Scale: Unknown. A full twin hulled model of a market or house boat from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Model has twin dugout hulls with gunwale strip lashed along top edges. Flat platform lashed between the hulls. Barrel shaped cabin made up of light timber frame, covered longitudinally with a light fibre roof. The model is equipped with three paddles, a long steering oar, a steering oar or leeboard, and a sculling oar. There are two paper label with the numbers "14" and "7", "26-36" has been written on one of the side decks and on the underside a further three paper labels with the letters "G2 and "C" painted in white on black, and the number "26". There is also another larger rectangular paper label with "Admiralty" hand written in black ink.
TRIM Reference GEN/36319. On inspection on 16/1/15 the rectangular wooden leeboard plank, with thread at either end through a central piercing at one end, and chamfered corners at the narrower end, is likely to be off another model- namely a Sri Lankan oru. This theory is based on the fact that there seems no appropriate place for this plank on the current model; its designation as a leeboard is very unlikely for this type of craft; and the type and finish of the wood is completely different to the rest of the current model, and is more similar to that of the orus. Its shape, finish and wood type match very closely to the short leeboard planks at bow and stern of the models of Sri Lankan orus within the collection. I would suggest that this piece is actually from AAE0034. (NJB)
caption: Twin hull market boat, Ceylon
caption: Twin hull market boat, Ceylon - three quarter view
caption: Twin hull market boat, Ceylon - quarter view
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | 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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