In Sudan, peacocks prefer turbans, all the better to display their tails. Meantime, those who do the heavy work, those who bear the young and pound the millet into aseeda flour, they prefer to wrap themselves in a shawl, Shaal in Arabic, not to be confused with Shaa’il, a She-Camel Raising her Tail as a Sign to the He-Camel, as per Lane.
©David Melody