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A night-time outdoor scene showing a shaven-headed man in a white dhoti and white shawl with red-and-white striped borders, standing at a dark table and holding a small cup or ladle over a set of buckets. A pink plastic bucket filled with pink liquid sits in the foreground. A person in a brown embroidered kurta and dark trousers with a red headband bends over the buckets, and another woman in a pale yellow sari stands at the right edge. Dim lighting and a wooden fence fill the background.2011-09-04May 27 20132013-05-27November 19 20132013-11-19December 26 20132013-12-26A ritual scene inside a hall with pale walls and maroon curtains. In the foreground, a long-haired person in a pale green embroidered garment and a white crown with gold bands pours or offers something from a small vessel into the cupped hands of a shaved-headed man in white clothes and a rudraksha mala. Beside them stands a bald priest in a white dhoti and orange-red shawl with a tilak, holding a red bowl or tray. On the right, another man in an orange robe watches. Several more people in white clothes stand in the background, and a figure in yellow is at the left edge.2010-09-02A photograph of an indoor ritual setting. On the left, a bald, older Western man in a light blue t-shirt and white trousers, wearing a rudraksha mala and a name badge, holds his cupped hands out. On the right, a long-haired man in a pale green embroidered kurta and a white and gold turban, smiling, dips his fingers into a clay pot held by a white-clad priest. Behind them, shaven-headed men in white dhotis and orange-red shawls stand watching, and a man in a yellow shawl is partly visible at the far left edge. The man in the turban has long dark hair and a gold bracelet; his appearance is not clearly distinctive for a probable identification here.2010-09-02April 23 20122012-04-23Night outdoor procession scene lit by a single street lamp against a dark sky. On the left, a man with long swept-back dark hair, a leopard-print shawl over the shoulders and orange saffron robes sits on a raised orange-draped platform, with an orange cloth wrap and a conch shell placed before him. Appearance-based label: a person, seated on the platform with leopard-print shawl, saffron robes and long hair. A bare-shouldered priest in white with a pink-edged cloth stands in the centre, facing him. A woman in a black shawl and a man in a white shirt offer flowers or a garland to the priest. Behind them, a crowd of devotees in white, green and pink clothing watches, with a large brass kalasha-like vessel and a golden trident standards visible at right. Ritual puja or procession setting.2010-11-20October 17 20102010-10-17A night-time outdoor photograph at an open-air serving table beside a green wire mesh fence and trees. Three people are visible in the foreground: a man in a white shirt on the left, a young woman in a beige salwar with a green dupatta holding a small steel vessel, and a middle-aged woman with glasses and a red-orange sari with a gold border. A man in a white shirt stands at the right edge. The table holds rows of small pink-tinted cups arranged on trays, which are being filled or served.2010-01-09May 13 20152015-05-13January 08 20122012-01-08