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Description: | "Malay anchor". Shank and arm a natural forked bough. (After A.R. Wallace, 1869)
Scale: Unknown. A model of a half killick from Indonesia. The shank and the arm are formed from a grown wooden bough with a rattan lashing supporting the arm to the shank. At two thirds of the way up the shank is a rougly shaped rectangular block of stone which is held on by a series of rattan lashings. There is also a smaller lashing at the very top together with an eye to which the cable can be attached.
Possibly made by Robert Morton Nance.
caption: Record Shot - Do not reproduce. | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | Greenwich Ship models : their purpose and development from 1650 to the present : illustrated from the ship model collection of the National Maritime Museum killicks models (representations) | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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