ID: 125
Ressource_Provider: Muriel Détrie
Title: Hand and foot shackle
DocumentNature: Engraving
Repository: Unknown
Page_number: 66
Color: Black and white
Caption: Voleur conduit et fustigé par des agents de police. Dessin de Janet Lange d'après une planche chinoise.
Topic: Chains and ropes (outdoor)
Description: The device used to lock right foot and left leg together was one of these illegal torture tools oft represented in the "Chinese plates", as the caption says. Was it really frequently used? No attestation of such shackle has been found yet.
Keyword: torture, shackle

Bibliography
  1:Name: POUSSIÈLGUE, Achille Le Tour du Monde

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1  Title: Le tour du monde
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