ID: 216
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Heads: in cages
DocumentNature: Book illustration
Repository: BNF
Page_number: 248
Color: Black and white
Caption: TÊTES DE DÉCAPITÉS EXPOSÉES DANS UNE CAGE.
Topic: Heads exposed 梟示
Keyword: Cages containing severed heads hanging on a wooden tripod.

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  1:Name: Almanach Hachette

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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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1  Title: Almanach Hachette
    DocumentNature: Book illustration

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