Caning
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Caning is a form of corporal punishment that consists of administering strikes to the body with what is typically a rattan cane. Generally, this is applied to the recipient's bare or clothed buttocks;
A display of rattan judicial canes from the Johor Bahru Prison museum, Malaysia
Caning stand and cane formerly used in Hong Kong prisons under British rule
Visible welts typically sustained from foot caning
Cartoon of schoolboys receiving the cane from 1888
Rattan
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Rattan, also spelled ratan, is the name for roughly 600 species of Old World climbing palms belonging to subfamily Calamoideae. The greatest diversity of rattan palm species and genera are in the clos
Caning
…Caning is a form of corporal punishment that consists of administering strikes (known as "strokes") to the body with what is typically a rattan cane. Generally, this is applied to the recipient's bare or clothed buttocks (see spanking); however, caning may also be applied to the soles of the…
Calamus thwaitesii in southwestern India
Juvenile Calamus oblongus subsp. mollis in a forest understory in the Philippines
Close-up of the edible scaly fruits and the spiny stem of Calamus rotang in Thailand
Base of a clustering rattan palm in Sulawesi, Indonesia