As the sun sets on the thirty-seventh of fifty-two nights, Khujasta speaks with Tuti the talking parrot. The parrot begins to tell her a tale about the son of the Emir of Sistan, who became the servant of a snake. The story conveys a moral about the importance of companionship and devotion.

A vertically oriented manuscript page features black Persian calligraphy and a painting depicting a woman with light skin tone wearing a red skirt and white top leaning toward a green parrot on a gold cage to our left. They are within a courtyard with blue hexagonal floor tiles, a gold jug in the lower right, and a pink and gold pavilion. Calligraphic script fills the upper half of the page.

Estate of Breckinridge Long [1881–1958], Bowie, MD

(Bernard Brown Agency, Milwaukee, WI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchased with funds from Mrs. A. Dean [Helen Wade Greene] Perry)

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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

Mughal India, court of Akbar

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

Mughal India, court of Akbar

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

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