ID: 108
Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
Title: Heads: in cages
DocumentNature: Photolithograph
Repository: Unknown
Page_number: 317
Color: Black and white
Caption: Têtes de décapités mises en cages.
Topic: Heads exposed 梟示
Description: Three heads of beheaded condamned were put in cages and hanged in a sort of tripod.
Keyword: punishment; execution; beheading; decapitation; heads; exposure; cages 梟示 xiaoshi

Bibliography
  1:Name: FAVIER, Alphonse Péking: histoire et description

Biography
  1:Family_Name: FAVIER Alphonse

Related Textual (1)

1  Title: Les peines chinoises vues par l'archevêque de Pékin en 1900
    Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
    Internal_Type: OCR

Related Replication (1)

1  Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
    Title: Heads in cages
    Information: Two kinds of pictures representing Exposure of the head, 梟示, which was an irregular punishment (runxing 閏刑), as it was not listed among the Five regular penalties (wuxing 五刑). A Criminal's head was left for up to two weeks in a wooden cage on a public place; the family was often allowed to redeem the to be buried with the corpse.

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