M0006328: Chinese model of "Death by a hundred cuts"

Previous title, replaced August 2020: "Death by a hundred cuts".

A model of three men depicting the Chinese practice of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts. The item was part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

June 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.