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The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar

(reigned 1556–1605)
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Medium
gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
Measurements
Overall: 20.3 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.); Painting only: 9.2 x 10.4 cm (3 5/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry 1962.279.271.a
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The woman was forced to leave home after soothsayers predicted that she would someday harm her father.

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The blind man clutches tightly to the hunchback’s staff with one hand and his wife’s arm with the other. At the front of the group, the hunchback points ahead to their ultimate destination—a city far from where the raja’s daughter was born. This image represents a story within the story that is being told by a parrot to the merchant’s son ‘Ubaid in order to cure his infatuation with his wife.
A vertically oriented book page features Persian script above a painting of three figures with medium skin tones walking left. Against pink hills and stylized trees, a hunched man in an orange tunic leads with a staff, followed by a bearded man in a blue tunic. A woman in a yellow skirt and white bodice with three breasts follows at the rear. A dark stream flows along the bottom edge.

The Raja’s daughter, born with three breasts, accompanies her blind husband and his hunchback guide on a journey, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night

c. 1560

Mughal India, court of Akbar (reigned 1556–1605)

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