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Chinese Prisoners

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William Saunders

Photographer · 1832–1892

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Date: about 1870
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Two men dressed in rags are confined in cangues, heavy flat boards with a hole in the center used for corporal punishment and public humiliation. One of the men stands in front of a lattice fence, while the other sits on the ground next to him.

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