boat model; fishing boat

Wooden model of a Chusan fishing boat. It is flat-bottomed, with a blunt bow and stern. It is fully decked, with a raised deck amidships, centre rudder; main-mast and small masts fore and aft, all with battened lug-sails. There is a fishing net slung from the mast. It is painted black, white, red, and green, with oculi at the bows. There is a small boat lashed on the raised deck.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
12.3.62/12
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 255 mm x 100 mm x 483 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
wood; textile; string; wire; paint
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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