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Carter No.: 308

Handlist description: Model boat

Card/Transcription No.: 308-2


308 (continued) 2

No thwarts (cross-beams) shown

Bulwarks 1.5 cents high, showing a flat main deck of 85 cents. in length.

Steering gear at stern: comprising two small paddles which operate upon arms fixed in upright poles (with hawks' heads) in place of crutches found in other boats, and cross-pieces which form a sort of overhanging poop deck.

DECORATION: Coloured green; stern and stem white smeared with orpiment yellow; bulwarks white with red and blue striations; deck white; upon bows <> in blue; blades of paddles yellow ochre tipped with black band, shaft white smeared with orpiment yellow, the hawk heads have dark blue wigs.

Remarks: See Lucas notes.

Card no. 308-2 relating to Carter no. 308
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