ID: 366
Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
Title: Decapitations in Kowloon, Hong Kong
DocumentNature: Photograph
Glass: Positive
Support: Paper
Mono: Monoscopic
Page_number: 291
Repository: Unknown
Color: Black and white
Caption: This photograph was reused by Berthelot in his ominous article "Les supplices de Chine", with the following comment:

L'EXÉCUTION EN MASSE
Dans certaines régions de nos colonies extréme-orientales, le brigandage pullule à tel point quil est parfois nécessaire de procéder à des exécutions capitales en masses.
Particulars: On this date in 1891, Chinese authorities beheaded 15 at Kowloon, including the leaders of the then-notorious Namoa pirates.They were nicknamed for the steamer they had infamously commandeered six months before.
A photo was taken just before the beheading, the condemned kneeling on the sand, with their hand bound in their back. The scene has been often, but mistakenly, reported to happen in Canton.
see http://www.executedtoday.com/2009/05/11/1891-namoa-pirates-hong-kong
Topic: Heads exposed 梟示
Description: A wholesale execution took place at Kowloon City on the 17th April, 1891, when nineteen pirates were decapitated, thirteen of them for participating in the Namoa and other piracies, and six others for various offences in Chinese territory … on the 11th May fifteen more prisoners were beheaded at Kowloon by the Chinese authorities, amongst the number being six Namoa pirates, including the three leaders of the gang, one of the men being the captain of the junks on board which the pirates put their plunder … One of the leaders decapitated, named Lai A Tsat, was a man whose boldness and cunning in carrying out piracies had long made him a terror both at sea and on shore.
Keyword: decapitation, heads exposed, group, Namoa steamer, pirates, Hong Kong, Kowloon

Bibliography
  1:Name: BERTHELOT, Philippe Les supplices en Chine
   Note(s): p.291

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1  Title: Autour des prisons de Canton
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2  Title: Les supplices en Chine
    Ressource_Provider: Jérôme Bourgon
    Internal_Type: OCR

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1  Title: Les supplices en Chine
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Geolocation
Asia --> China --> Guangdong --> Canton (Guangzhou)

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