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A crowded indoor hall full of people in white ritual clothes, many holding round leaf plates with yellow food, apparently receiving or distributing a meal. In the foreground a man with a grey moustache and white shirt wears an orange and blue shawl and a red forehead mark, while a woman in a mustard shawl stands beside him. Other men in white shirts and dhotis hold plates, and a bare-armed man at right holds a plate overhead. Plain concrete walls and a pink curtain are visible at the back, with a distant figure at top right who is too small to assess. No clear depiction of a person is identifiable in this view.

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