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CUTTING OFF RIGHT HANDS

When 50 of his subjects rebel, Menelik, Ethiopian ruler, cuts off their right hands and hangs them round their necks as mementoes of their folly

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Picture No
10009397
Media ID
48870938
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Ferat in Journal des Voyages 25 August 1889 page 113
Date
1886 or 87

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