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1. 1787.d.7, 3(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(13)
Title:
The caingue punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a kneeling man, wearing the caingue, a square wooden collar, with the wrong-doer's crime proclaimed on a card on the front of the board: 'The caingue...is one of the lighter punishments of China, inflicted for minor offences, such as petty...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.7, 3(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.7, 3(14)
Title:
The cage punishment. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a of a criminal encased in a wooden framework, from which his neck projects, 'so constructed that the prisoner has the choice of either suspending himself by the neck to relieve his toes, which just touch the board, or of standing on his t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1870-1872
Extent:
1 item

3. Mss Eur D951/32(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(1)
Title:
Thugee No. 1. Following the victim. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Captain Superintendent.' Posed photograph showing two Thugs approaching an unsuspecting man from behind.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

4. Mss Eur D951/32(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(2)
Title:
Thugee No. 1. Following the victim. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Superintendent.' Duplicate of print 1, a posed photograph showing two Thugs approaching an unsuspecting man from behind.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

5. Mss Eur D951/32(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(3)
Title:
Thugee No. 2. Throwing him. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Captn. Superintendent.' Posed photograph in continuation of print 1-2, showing one man grasping the victim below the waist from behind in order to throw him to the ground, while his accompl...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

6. Mss Eur D951/32(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(4)
Title:
Thugee No. 2. Throwing him. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Captain Superintendent.' Duplicate of print 3, showing one man grasping the victim below the waist from behind preparatory to throwing him to the ground, while his accomplice raises the sca...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

7. Mss Eur D951/32(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(5)
Title:
Thugee No. 3. Throttling him. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Superintendent.' Posed photograph, in continuation of prints 1-4. The victim has been brought to the ground, where two Thugs hold him face down, while a third strangles him with a scarf.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

8. Mss Eur D951/32(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D951/32(6)
Title:
Thugee No. 3. Throttling him. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Wet stamp on mount reading 'Government School of Industry Jubbulpore,' and signed 'B. Rogers Captain Superintendent.' Duplicate of print 5, a posed photograph, in continuation of prints 1-4. The victim has been brought to the ground, where two Thugs hold him face down, while a thir...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1871
Extent:
1 item

9. Mss Eur G91(165a)

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur G91(165a)
Title:
Jabalpoor, group of Thugs. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Scope & Content:
Group of seven thugs seated on a carpet. The print is unnumbered and unsigned, but almost certainly corresponds to no. 128 in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue, where the location is given as Simla rather than Jabalpur. Jabalpur in fact seems a more likely location for, as Bowring writes (pp. 16...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860s
Extent:
1 item

10. Photo 28/2(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 28/2(27)
Title:
Group of native Thugs. Photographer: Bourne, Samuel
Scope & Content:
Group portrait of seven thugs sitting on a rug. An unnumbered print, but almost certainly Bourne No.128, listed in the catalogue as having been taken at Simla. See also Photo 127 (67), for a carte de visite portrait of this group. The carpet on which they are seated is presumably a visual refer...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1863
Extent:
1 item