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The origin of music from a fabulous bird of India which had seven holes in its beak, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night

Cleveland Museum of Art

A man sits on a patterned rug playing a stringed instrument. The man has short hair and wears a white garment. He sits cross-legged on a blue and gold rug with a red wall behind him. A yellow, white, and red tapestry hangs on the wall. To the left of the man is an orange shield on a stand and a tree. To the right is a tree, a bird with a long tail perched on a rock, and several large rocks. The image includes several lines of black text in a foreign language at the top and bottom. The image has a thin border.

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