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The Brahman’s wife who killed a peacock and ate its gallbladder on the physician’s advice, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Nineteenth Night

c. 1560
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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The gold square on the long black cord around the woman’s neck is an amulet.

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