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Photo 92/1(10)
- Record Id:
- 041-003045130
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003045119
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025648519.0x000e2b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 92/1(10)
- Title:
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Gen. Liu presiding at a court martial on one of his men. The affair took ten minutes and at the end the offender had his head cut off. [Loilong, Shan State.] Photographer: Scott, Sir James George
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Portrait Photography
Portrait of General Liu seated behind a table covered with an embroidered cloth, surrounded by officials, and with an umbrella of state held over him. The incident if briefly described in G.E. Mitton, Scott of the Shan Hills (London, 1936), p.262: 'On New Year's Day the General and his staff came over to pay a New Year's call, and were received by the fourteen European officers of the Commission and escort. A Chinese soldier fired at another intending to kill him, but hit the wrong man, who died. General Liu tried the offender. He started at two o'clock and ten minutes later three guns was the signal that the man's head had been cut off. The murderer was little more than a boy'. The execution is also described in H.B. Walker, Report of the Intelligence Officer on the Burma-China Boundary Commission...1898-99 (Rangoon, 1899).
Subjects = boundary commissions; courts martial; law & legal affairs; Scott (Sir George) Collection
Location = Burma; Loilong; Myanmar; Shan
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003045119
040-003045120
041-003045130 - Is part of:
- Photo 92 : Sir James George Scott Collection: Photographs of Burma (particularly the Shan States). Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/1 : Scott Collection: Burma-China Boundary Commission and 2nd Wild Wa Expedition Photographs. Photographer(s): Scott, James George
Photo 92/1(10) : Gen. Liu presiding at a court martial on one of his men. The affair took ten minutes and at the end the offender had his head cut… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003045119[0001]/040-003045120[0010]/041-003045130
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 92
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1899
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- 1 Jan 1899
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Former External References:
- 318
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Scott, Sir James George
- Subjects:
- Burma-China Boundary Commission, 1898-99