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This miniature from a manuscript of the Livre des merveilles du monde, or The Travels of Marco Polo, depicts the Mongol princess Qutulun (c. 1260-1306) wrestling a suitor for her hand in marriage. Qutulun was the daughter of Qaidu (1230-1301), Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, a nephew and rival of Kublai Khan (1215-1294). Polo recounted the story of Qutulun in his travel narrative (Chapter 49) and described how she used her great strength to set a challenge for any man who may have wished to marry her. According to Polo, Qutulun received a written promise from her father that she could marry at her own discretion. When Qaidu pressured Qutulun to marry, she swore that she would only marry a man who could best her in a wrestling match. In Polo’s words, Qutulun was “so well-made in all her limbs, and so tall and strongly built, that she might almost be taken for a giantess.” Not only did Qutulun wrestle her suitors, but she also demanded a hundred horses from any contestant who failed.