Model of a Burmese oil boat, with projecting platform for additional cargo storage

Made:: 1893-1903 in Rangoon

maker:: Unknown

Model, scale 1:16, of a riverboat from the Irrawaddy River, known as an oil-boat as it was used to transport petroleum from Burma, with woven roofs, unsigned, Rangoon, Yangon, Myanmar, 1893-1903

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Category:: Water Transport

Object Number:: 1903-56

Materials:: see parts

Measurements:: see parts

type:: model - representation and boat

rights:: Unknown Copyright holder

credit:: Royal United Service Institution

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Model of a Burmese oil boat

Model, scale 1:16, of a riverboat from the Irrawaddy River, known as an 'oil-boat' as it was used to transport petroleum from Burma, with woven roof tilts, unsigned, Rangoon, Yangon, Myanmar, 1893-1903

Measurements:: overall (with oar): 305 mm x 1025 mm x 335 mm,

Materials:: wood (unidentified) , bamboo , metal (unknown) and cotton (fibre)

Object Number:: 1903-56/1

type:: model - representation and boat

Projecting platform from model of a Burmese oil boat

Projecting platform for additional cargo storage from model of a riverboat from the Irrawaddy River, known as an 'oil-boat', unsigned, Rangoon, Yangon, Myanmar, 1893-1903