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Criminals could be locked up in a wooden box in Mongolia.
This disturbing photo was taken in July 1913 by French photographer Albert Kahn. He often took trips through exotic countries and it was during a visit in Mongolia that he happened upon this woman who had been condemned to slow and painful starvation. She was boxed up in what would become her tomb (as can be seen here) and deposited in a remote desert. There were bowls of water on the ground and the prisoner is allowed to beg passerby for food, though not much is given.
The photographer was forced to leave her there, it would be against a prime directive of anthropologists to intervene in a culture's law and order system. Anthropologists are only able to observe, they cannot push their own beliefs or interfere in any way.
