ID: 9
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Beheading of a Boxer
Date of event: December 1900(?)
Date Accuracy: Dubious
Place Continent: Asia
Place Country: China
Place Region: Hebei (Zhili)
Place City: Beijing
PlaceAccuracy: Exact
EventNature: Execution
Summary: The condamned is taken to the execution place, undressed till the waist and the hands bounded under his back by the executioner assistants; then he lies on the ground, the executioner who has hiden the sword to his eyes starts the execution. While the executioner severs the head, his assistants pull the body on the other side.

Bibliography
  1:Ref.: MESSEROTTI BENVENUTI, Giuseppe Un italiano nella Cina dei Boxer - Lettere e fotografie (1900-1901)

Photographs

	1:Title: Beijing 1901, Beheading of a Boxer 1 The condamned man stands up among the soldiers in front of the camera waiting for the execution.
	2:Title: Beijing 1901, Beheading of a Boxer 2 The condamned is taken to the execution place, undressed till the waist, the hands bounded under his back by the executioner assistants. While the executioner (on the left side) wears an apron in order not to get dirty.
	3:Title: Beijing 1901, Beheading of a Boxer 3 The condamned lies on the ground, the executioner who has hidden the sword to his eyes starts the execution
	4:Title: Beijing 1901, Beheading of a Boxer 4 While the executioner severs the head, his assistants pull the body on the other side. Finally the condamned is dead.

Geolocation
Asia --> China --> Hebei (Zhili) --> Beijing

Derniére modification le : 2005-11-09