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A photograph of an evening procession in which a man sits on an ornate golden palanquin-style vehicle draped with white, purple, yellow and orange flower garlands and hung with pink, red, blue and green tassels. He wears an orange garment and a white flower garland, smiling, and holds a kalasha-like golden finial above him. The vehicle is carried on an open platform among people in white and yellow clothing, and a woman in orange sari and glasses sits in the lower left foreground. Many onlookers stand around the vehicle at dusk. The man seated on the palanquin matches the page's a person reference only through role and presentation cues: orange clothing, a flower garland and an honoured seat, which is insufficient for identification, so the appearance is treated as uncertain.

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