Cormorant Fishing Boat Model – Chinese Wooden River Junk
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Cormorant Fishing Boat Model – Chinese Wooden River Junk
$78.00
Sale price
$78.00
Regular price
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A handcrafted Chinese cormorant fishing boat model — bamboo poles, hand-woven straw cabin, cormorant figure, display-ready.
- One handcrafted cormorant fishing boat model, built to order in Zhoushan
- Natural wood hull, bamboo poles, hand-woven straw cabin roof
- Cormorant bird figure mounted on stern perch pole
- Dimensions: 34 cm L × 9.5 cm W × 8 cm H (13.4 in × 3.7 in × 3.1 in)
- Materials: solid wood, natural bamboo, hand-woven straw
- No assembly required — flat-bottom hull is freestanding, display-ready
For over a thousand years, fishermen along the rivers and lakes of southern China trained cormorant birds to dive and retrieve fish — perched on bamboo poles at the bow, waiting while the fisherman read the water. The straw-thatched cabin sheltered the fisherman through rain and sun; the flat-bottomed hull was built for the shallow, reed-lined waterways of Jiangnan.
This model captures that world in miniature: bamboo perch poles, hand-woven straw cabin, a cormorant figure at the stern — every element assembled by hand in our Zhoushan workshop, founded in 1980 on an archipelago where wooden boat-building is recognized as intangible cultural heritage.
Who This Is For
For anyone with a genuine interest in Chinese cultural history, traditional fishing practices, or the relationship between humans and animals in pre-industrial life. The most distinctive model in our range — a vessel type most people have never seen rendered in miniature, and the kind of object that prompts a conversation.
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