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A photograph of an indoor house visit in a bright room with wooden-framed windows and a patterned floor rug. In the foreground, a woman with grey hair in a pink sari with a gold border kneels and reaches to take a red fruit from a seated figure dressed in saffron-orange robes with a yellow shawl and a white flower garland. Behind them, a man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands with his hands pressed together. Other people in orange and white attire, including a woman in orange with grey hair and several men in white dhotis and saffron shawls, stand or sit around the room, some holding red fruit. The seated figure in orange is a devotee's host, presented here as a priest-like attendant; no further identity is asserted.

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A photograph inside a bright room with cream walls, wooden framed windows and a patterned floor rug. In the foreground an older woman with short grey hair, wearing an orange sari with a gold border and bangles, bends forward to receive a red fruit from a younger person kneeling in orange robes with a yellow shawl and a rudraksha-style necklace. Behind them a man in a white shirt and white dhoti with purple border stands near a woman in an orange sari. Several people in white and off-white clothes and orange shawls stand or sit along the right side, one holding a basket of red fruit, and a man in a white kurta looks on at the left edge. No identifiable a person figure is visible.2010-02-18A photograph inside a room with cream walls and a patterned rug. In the foreground, a figure with long dark hair wears an orange robe and a yellow-green flower garland and kneels, extending a red fruit toward an older woman in a red sari with a gold border, who kneels and reaches to receive it. 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Other people in orange and red saris and white shirts stand in the background.2010-02-18October 15 20082008-10-15Indoor photograph in a tiled hall with wooden windows and a brown sofa at left. A man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands center, one hand raised over the head of a bearded man in white dhoti and shawl with orange-and-gold border who kneels and holds out red fruit or offerings. In the foreground a woman in an orange sari with a yellow shawl, white flower garland and red fruit kneels, extending a red fruit. Behind, a woman in a maroon sari and a young man in white sit or kneel, one holding a red fruit. A standing man in a white shirt and dhoti stands at far left. The scene resembles a blessing exchange with fruit offerings on a patterned carpet.2010-02-18A photograph of a home visit in a living room. 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