"Fireworks on the Night of Shab-i Barat Feast", Folio from the Davis Album

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This festival of Shab-i Barat is celebrated as a night of ‘fortune and forgiveness’ to mark the Prophet Muhammad’s entry to Mecca. Here we see women playing with sparklers as fireworks go off in the distant background and plumes of smoke rise into the night sky.

"Fireworks on the Night of Shab-i Barat Feast", Folio from the Davis Album, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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