Queen Jumbe-Souli, Djoumbe Fatima, Sultana of Moheli in the Comoros, –1878. She wears a robe of Turkish silk and gold, mask, and sits on a chair before a nurse and a servant in hijab. Queen Moheli and her attendants (Madagascar). Taken from Henry Walter Bates' Illustrated Travels. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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