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July 07 2014

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A photograph of a colourful floor rangoli drawn on bare brown earth in front of a grey stone platform edge at the top of the frame. The symmetrical kolam uses white rice-flour outlines filled with bright green, red, orange and magenta powder, with a central diamond of red and yellow dots, surrounding leaf-shaped petals, lotus-like motifs and pot or kalasha-shaped designs in the corners. No people are visible.A chalk rangoli drawn on a concrete ground, a symmetrical flower-like floor design with a central eight-petal lotus outlined in white with blue and green lines, a six-pointed star at its centre, and pink and orange petal and swirl motifs radiating outward. No people or ritual objects are visible; the speckled grey concrete surface frames the colourful design.2019-07-15A photograph of a concrete wall with a painted orange top border, decorated with colourful chalk or powder kolam-style art. Large white wavy line patterns interlace with leaf-like petals in orange, red, pink, green, blue, purple and yellow. On the right, stylised lotus and flower motifs with yellow centres and green leaves frame a central circular mandala with red spirals and a star pattern. The word DHAYA is written in white capital letters above the mandala. Bare feet are visible at the lower left edge, and a sand-coloured ground lies below the wall. No people are standing in the scene apart from the feet at the edge.2010-12-12July 07 20142014-07-07 +1 copiesA colourful floor rangoli on a grey concrete surface, made from powdered pigments in pink, yellow, red, deep purple and green outlined with white. It forms a symmetrical four-petal lotus-like design with leaf shapes radiating from a small white ring at the centre. No people are visible.2013-12-07A chalk rangoli drawn on a dark concrete floor, showing six stylised birds in orange, teal, blue, purple, green and red arranged in a ring around a blue flower at the centre. Each bird has white outlines and small white dotted accents on the bodies. No people are visible in the image.2008-01-01A colourful floor rangoli on a dark concrete ground, drawn with coloured powders outlined in white. Six stylised flowers with green leaves ring a central blue pinwheel-like star dotted with white. The flowers alternate red, magenta, and orange petals. No people, deities or ritual activity are visible.2008-01-01December 22 20162016-12-22 +1 copiesDecember 31 20062006-12-31A floor rangoli on a grey stone or concrete surface, made from coloured powders. A central red and orange motif sits within a ring of purple circles, each with white outlines, and yellow petal-like arcs connecting them. Small brown and orange oil-lamp or diya shapes appear in several of the purple sections. White powdered line lattice patterns frame the design at the corners and bottom. No people are visible; the image shows only the decorated floor.2013-10-07October 09 20132013-10-09A close overhead view of colourful sand or powder rangoli being drawn on a brick-paved ground. A large multi-petalled flower design is filled with blue, green, yellow, magenta and red powder outlined in white. A person in a blue patterned skirt and black leggings kneels at right, drawing with a finger, with bangles on the wrist and sandals on the feet. Small cups of coloured powder sit nearby, and other pieces of rangoli, including a star motif, are partly visible at the edges. No a person candidate is visible.2012-07-15