Model outrigger for the boat 1884.54.51 .1. Carved from a single piece of wood, possibly pith, into a long, thin oval shape with upturned edges. There are perforations going across the outrigger horizontally, in patterns of three dots with another three dots parallel to it. [ASh [OPS move] 10/10/2016]

Collection type: Object
Description: Model outrigger for the boat 1884.54.51 .1. Carved from a single piece of wood, possibly pith, into a long, thin oval shape with upturned edges. There are perforations going across the outrigger horizontally, in patterns of three dots with another three dots parallel to it. [ASh [OPS move] 10/10/2016]
Geographical reference: Sri Lanka
Asia > Southern Asia > Sri Lanka; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1874
Date collected: Prior to 1874
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Height: max 36 mm, Width: max 27 mm, Length: max 642 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.54.51.2 PR Cat other PR nos: 1616
Associated publications: ?This object is described in the following article, Nature 22 23.9.1880 p492 'In such a condition are the Cinghalese canoes which come alongside all the steamers at Point de Galle and take passengers on shore (fig 2, 4). There is a model of one of these in the series, and also another of a wide flat bottomed boat also from Ceylon, in which two dug out trunks are fastened to the margins of the bottom, one on each side, as as to form lateral floats and give the boat very great stability ...'. [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]