Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Victims of torture are tied to wooden planks and thrown off a wall at the bottom of which young men are wainting to beat them to death with wooden clubs. Wood engraving.
Victims of torture are tied to wooden planks and thrown off a wall at the bottom of which young men are wainting to beat them to death with wooden clubs. Wood engraving.
Wellcome Collection

Victims of torture are tied to wooden planks and thrown off a wall at the bottom of which young men are wainting to beat them to death with wooden clubs. Wood engraving.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Dahomey - victims for the attoh custom

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