Merchant vessel; Laung-zat; Rice boat

Scale: Unknown. A model of a Burmese Laung-Zat or rice boat. The model is made entirely in wood, and has been varnished a mahogany colour. It is unrigged with a dugout, flat bottomed hull which has a high sculpted bow and stern. There is a steersman's platform aft with a rudder rigged to the port quarter. There are outriggers along both gunwales that are also used as gangways fore and aft, and there are a pair of oars stowed at the aft deck. There is a deck house with an upward sloping pitched roof. The model is equipped with a pair of oars and what appears to be two quants. On a plaque is inscribed: 'Burmese Paddy Boat'.