ID: 87
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Heads: in cages
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Repository: NYPL
Color: Hand-tinted
Topic: Heads exposed 梟示
Description: Cages containing severed heads
Bibliography
1:Name:
DRAPER, Henry Album Draper
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.
Related VisualSet (1)
1 Title: Album Draper DocumentNature: Watercolor
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