Two boys hold a pole to which another's feet are tied to a pole as he awaits the bastinado form of punishment for being lazy, Persia. Process print after a photograph by M. Sevraguine ca. 1880.

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [1880?]

1 print : process print ; image 14.9 x 22.6 cm

Luckless laziness in a Persian seminary pays the penalty by undergoing the bastinado mode of punishment. Photo. M. Sevaguine The bastinado, the rudimentary form of punishment of Persian justice ... a punishment to which the hard soles of the ordinary offender are so inured that he prefers to 'eat sticks' rather than pay a fine

Wellcome Collection 586399i