Caption

Jurisdiction, torture and punishment in medieval China, punishment with bamboo cane. A piece of bamboo cane is provided whose length is almost the same as the body size of the delinquent and has a considerable circumference. Since this bamboo is completely hollow, it allows a large iron chain to be passed through it. One end of this chain is riveted to a pole, the other encloses the prisoner's neck and is secured there with a padlock, authentic, digitally restored reproduction from an 18th century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

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Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

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BRK26B05_060

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No

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Royalty free

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41,3Mb (405,4Kb) / 15,2in x 10,5in / 4560 x 3162 (300dpi)

Keywords

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