Genre: Ethnographical Photography Showing four Konyak men in traditional dress holding large bows and umbrellas. In the distance, the crowd is clearly visible.
With contemporary printed descriptive label: 'No. 32.- Decapitation. Our artist has seized the moment when the culprit, half stupefied with opium, having been shot out of the cage or basket in which he has reached the ground, has his queue firmly grasped and pulled over his head by a man who wil...
Execution at Batavia [Jakarta]. Photographer: Woodbury and Page
Scope & Content:
'Execution of the eight so-called Tambun murderers in Bekasi on 24 August 1870. These men were sentenced to death for the murder of a number of people, among them the Assistant-Resident of Meester Cornelis, now Jatinegara, E. R. J. C.de Kuijper, on 2 April 1869. Although the attempt at rebellion...