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The parrot addresses Khujasta at the beginning of the thirty-fourth night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

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

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A small cord around the parrot’s legs keeps him anchored to his cage.

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