MASHHUF or MASHOOF canoe.

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Stanley Gibbons gives for this canoe a “marsh canoe” but the original name is a “mashhuf or mashoof canoe” of which Aak to Zumbra a dictionary of the World’s watercraft gives:
Used in south Iraq: A beamy shallow workboat at the Marsh Arabs; carries cargo and passengers. Its high pointed bow is designed to part the tall marsh grasses. Somewhat lower stern. Plank built of a thin wood; strongly flared sides; curved stem and sternpost. Ribs terminated about halfway up the sides and are covered by a stringer, or they continue to the heavy gunwale, covered by inner planking. Narrow almond-shaped, flat bottom. Open except for short-end decks; no floorboard; at least 2 crossbeams, and a thwart. Inside undecorated, outside coated with bitumen. Poled or paddled from each end; towed upstream from shore when traversing a major waterway.
Reported lengths 4.6-9.8m.e.g. length 5.6, beam 1.27, inside depth 0.43m.
The name is given also to a canoe made of reed.
She is also known under different names in Iraq.
Wikipedia gives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashoof

Iraq 1971 5f sg940, Scott?