Caption:
Punishments: African man wearing a jaw-and-tongue iron, a man wearing a heavy 24lb collar, and an Indian Brahmin suspended over a fire. Handcolored copperplate engraving from G. T. Wilhelm's "Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind," Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.