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January 24 20162016-01-24Photo 11724136 +2 copiesDecember 24 20152015-12-24Outdoor festival scene at a temple site with palm trees and a white tent backdrop. Drummers and a horn player in white dhotis and maroon or brown shirts play drums and a long brass horn while a line of people stands and watches. A woman in a white sari with a red border stands at left beside a woman in an orange sari. A sign reads Sri Nanjundeshwar Temple with a portrait. Colourful rangoli decorates the ground and national flags fly along the poles.2007-12-26January 24 20162016-01-24A procession with ceremonial musicians and attendants in Thiruvannamalai. In the foreground a man in a yellow shirt and white dhoti plays a long brass horn (natheswaram-style wind instrument). Beside him a man with white forehead paste and red bindi plays a similar horn, wearing a yellow top and orange cloth. In the centre a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a large barrel drum (thavil) with gold-trimmed straps. Behind them an orange and yellow ornate ceremonial standard with a red emblem is carried, and a young man at right in orange dhoti, bare chest, rudraksha and gold necklaces holds a gold-tipped pole of a large fringed canopy. Several attendants wear white or orange cloth with white sacred ash marks. The scene is an outdoor temple procession with palm trees and a painted deity banner at left.2017-03-11Outdoor festival scene under palm trees at an ashram-like compound with thatched roofs. In the centre, a man in a white dhoti and white shirt with a multicoloured cord and ceremonial necklace plays a long brass horn (nadaswaram-style wind instrument). Beside him, a man in a cream dhoti with a yellow-bordered cloth plays a similar horn, and a drummer in a white dhoti and red cloth beats a barrel drum. A woman in white with hands folded in namaste smiles in the background, with a flag in orange and blue and a white floral decoration nearby. A man in a checked shirt stands at right and a man in a purple shirt stands at left. A notice board is mounted on the wall at the top left.2010-10-17A temple procession scene with musicians in white dhotis and shirts playing traditional instruments in a stone-paved courtyard. A boy in a yellow kurta plays a long wind instrument (nadaswaram-style), an older man in white plays a small drum-like instrument, and a younger man in white holds a frame drum. Behind them a crowd of onlookers stands in the stone temple doorway, and a woman in a white sari is seen at the left edge beside a large orange and red decorated umbrella. White kolam rangoli patterns are drawn on the ground.2012-05-18 +1 copiesJuly 21 20102010-07-21A photograph of a street procession with musicians in white dhotis and shirts on a paved courtyard in front of a temple-like structure with a gold kalasha finial and garlands. A man on the left plays a double-headed drum with a red cloth strap and tilak on his forehead. A man in the centre plays a saxophone-style wind instrument. A woman in an orange sari plays a flute-like instrument beside a drum. On the right a man in white holds a tall pole with a decorated yellow canopy, and a woman in yellow is partly visible at the edge. Statues and white pillars are visible behind them.2009-06-01January 24 20162016-01-24July 21 20102010-07-21