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December 23 20082008-12-23Outdoor evening procession on a dirt road with a crowd of devotees in white dhotis and white saris, many with yellow sashes. Drummers in front play large drums, and musicians blow long brass horns. Behind them, a decorated ratha-style chariot with a golden crest and ornate panels in red and gold moves under multicoloured ceremonial umbrellas and pennants. Several devotees carry orange and red flags. Low buildings and a hazy sky are in the background. No identifiable a person is visible in this image.2010-02-12Outdoor photograph of a procession on a dusty red dirt road at dusk. Many people in white dhotis and saris walk behind a decorated chariot-style float topped with a golden structure and colourful canopies with jewel-toned fringes. A drummer in a red shirt with a green-and-red drum slung at his hip walks in the foreground, and a man in a blue shirt and orange dhoti plays a horn beside him. Orange-robed participants walk among the crowd, and blue portable toilet units and trees stand in the background.2010-02-12Outdoor festival procession on a dusty path under trees and a clear blue sky. Many devotees dressed in white, some women in cream and yellow saris, walk among large ornate umbrella-like canopies with yellow fringe and red, green and blue embroidered panels bearing floral and bird motifs. Saffron flags are raised in the crowd, and a drummer in a grey shirt beats a drum at the lower right. Some participants carry staffs and white cloth bundles. No individual is clearly identifiable as a person from the visible cues in this image, so no candidate is marked.2008-12-23January 13 20152015-01-13December 23 20082008-12-23Outdoor festival procession on a dusty open ground at dusk, with a crowd of roughly 40 people walking in a line. Drummers in front play a large drum, and a man in an orange shirt and white dhoti plays a horn-like instrument. Several men wear orange or saffron robes and shawls, while many women wear white saris, pink and red outfits. A tall parasol with orange and yellow panels and a decorated float or palanquin with orange and gold ornaments are visible in the background, beside a row of tents and banners.2009-01-02A procession moves along a dusty unpaved road under a clear pale sky, with a water tower and hills in the distance. Several colourful umbrellas with blue, red and yellow panels and fringed edges are carried above the marchers. Many people in white dhotis and white saris walk in the procession, while a few wear orange and maroon garments. At left, drummers carry drums and a man in a maroon top plays a long horn. Children walk among the crowd, and a pole or standard rises at the front. The scene suggests a ritual street procession, with participants dressed in traditional white attire.2006-12-29Outdoor procession on a dirt path during a temple-style festival, with a decorated ratha or palanquin in the left background draped in colourful fabric and garlands. Large crowds of devotees in white dhotis, white saris and white kurtas walk alongside monks in saffron-orange robes. Two large multicoloured umbrellas with fringed edges are held above the procession, and orange fabric canopies stretch overhead. A tent-like pavilion and a white truck appear at the edges under a clear blue sky.2008-12-23A large outdoor procession on a dusty reddish dirt road beside a concrete boundary wall and barbed-wire fence, with a bare hillside of red earth behind. Many people in white and off-white traditional clothes, including men in white shirts and dhotis and women in white and colourful saris, crowd the road. Several colourful fringed umbrellas with red, blue and yellow panels are held aloft over the crowd, and orange-and-saffron flags on poles wave at right, along with a red-and-gold decorated banner and clusters of multicoloured balloons. A few people in orange or saffron cloth stand among the throng. Palm trees and leafless trees sit in the hazy background.2008-12-29A procession on a dusty village road. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and dhoti plays a large hand drum, and a woman in a white sari with a green embroidered shawl walks beside a man in white holding an orange-and-gold pole. Behind them devotees in white clothes with orange shawls walk among colourful canopies and a decorated vehicle under a yellow-and-red ornamented parasol. Two Western women in white saris and orange shawls walk at the right edge. Trees, a white temple tower and blue tarpaulin stalls line the road under a clear sky.2007-02-02December 24 20082008-12-24