[Lithograph 10]
CAIRINE LADY WAITED UPON BY A GALLA SLAVE GIRL
“Galla” was a pejorative name used to refer to Oromo people who lived in the regions from Ethiopia to northern Kenya, and spoke one of the Cushitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic family. It should be noticed that the attire of the female slave offering the qulla (wide-mouthed water jug) is very similar to that of the lady reclining on cushions on a dīwān (couch). It is said that the relationship between slave girls and mistresses involved a certain friendship, and was not as simple as the connotation of the word “slave.” To the right of the lithograph is a kursī, small table inlaid with mother-of-pearl .
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