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Description: | Arab merchant vessel, dhow, bagala, or baghla, with three lines of painted port holes at each side. It is built on a frame with a keel, planked, secured with wooden dowels, and has a transom stern and raised curved stem piece. There are the remains of rigging and evidence of mast steps. The ship has steering equipment on a quarter deck, an anchor at the bow and is decked with planks secured with dowels. The transom stern and sides of the hull are elaborately decorated with carvings and painted.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn12375
caption: Detail view of whole of Horniman Museum object no nn12375
caption: Detail view of label of Horniman Museum object no nn12375 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | wood boats vegetable fibre iron | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-121046 | Go to resource |
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