Scale: Unknown. A full hull model of a Burmese war boat. The main body of the hull is carved from a single piece of wood to which both highly decorated bow and stern pieces have been added either side of the last thwart. This type of construction is known as an extended dugout or pirogue. Externally, the hull is painted a gloss black with a floral and geometric decoration at stern. At the bow is a carved dragon like head painted green with various fins and a crest painted gold. The pair of black eyes have red surrounds and the mouth and the underside of the jaw are edged in a dark red. There are a pair of washstrakes, painted a bright red, resting above the eight thwarts. The inwales, stern deck, thwarts, and lower deck are painted in a dark green. The highly decorated and upwardly curving stern tapers to a flat tail like carving which is topped with leaf foliage painted gold. Both the inside of the stern decoration and just aft of the dragon's head are painted a bright red.