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[Lithograph 26]
NUBIAN AND A FELLAH, CARRYING DROMEDARY SADDLE-BAGS
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 The Nubians were an ethnic group that spoke Nubian, one of the Eastern Sudanic languages of the Nilo-Saharan family. They lived in the area from southern Egypt to northern Sudan, and were traditionally engaged in irrigation farming using the Nile's water. After Egypt's Islamization, they enjoyed a kind of autonomy, but were eventually conquered by Muḥammad ʻAlī in early 1820. Since ancient times, they were acknowledged as different people from Egyptians of downstream Nile, with regards to language and culture. However, the Nubian man on the left of the lithograph dresses similarly to the Egyptian fallāḥ (fellah, peasants).

 
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