CRAFTS Executioner in Canton portrayed with the weapon in his hand. Behind the subject you can see the base of the support provided to help him stay still during the long pose. Collection Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (13 June 1845 - 16 December 1909); gift of the French anthropologist Charles Letourneau (23 September 1831 - 21 February 1902) from the collection of the Ethnological Society of Paris. Photography; China 1872