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A photograph of a life-sized figurative tableau outdoors under trees and palms, showing a rural village scene. At left, a bare-chested, pot-bellied figure with a moustache wears an orange and yellow marigold garland and a white dhoti, raising a long staff with a yellow ball at its top. Beside him a woman in a blue and purple sari holds a rope tied to a black cow. A woman in a black and gold sari balances a brass plate on her head, and a woman in a red sari raises her arms. At right, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti holds a large frame drum. The statues are not physical people; the scene is a static exhibit set on a grassy lawn with a wooden railing in the foreground.

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