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October 16 20062006-10-16Photograph inside a temple hall with a polished red-speckled granite floor. In the foreground, two musicians in white and orange-tan clothes play long wind instruments, and a drummer in white sits cross-legged beside a barrel drum with a gold-patterned band and a green drum beside him. Behind them, many seated devotees in white and colourful saris sit on the floor facing the shrine, with a palm frond and colourful garlanded pillars nearby. A deity murti stands in a shrine alcove at the back, adorned with garlands, as part of a temple abhishekam and alankaram ceremony.2006-01-23 +1 copiesOutdoor temple procession in a village street in India. A man in the foreground wears a white dhoti and an orange-saffron shawl and faces the temple, and beside him another man in white holds a long wind instrument. A drummer with a barrel drum stands among white-clad musicians, and a crowd of women in colourful saris and men in shirts watches from the left and right. Behind them a blue and yellow temple gateway with a white-and-yellow sign reads in Tamil, with a sculpted deity group and two bulls atop it. White flags with blue emblems are held on the left, and a man at the entrance wears a red shirt. Date stamp 16.10.2006 in the corner.2006-10-16A 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 copiesEvening photograph of a group of musicians seated on mats on a concrete floor under a roofed open pavilion. In the centre, a woman in a green sari with a red blouse plays a long wooden nadaswaram-style pipe, flanked by men in white dhotis and white shirts; one man plays a second pipe while others play dhol drums with wooden sticks. Red and orange triangular bunting hangs from the roof, and a colourful painted cloth banner with floral motifs is tied to a pole. Several onlookers sit in the background, including a man in an orange shirt and an older man in white. A few people sit at the far edge in the dim light.2007-12-30December 30 20072007-12-30December 30 20072007-12-30A photograph of a traditional Indian musical procession in a covered corridor of a white building. Men in white dhotis and shirts play instruments: the central player blows a long brass nadaswaram-style horn with an orange-yellow sash and rudraksha-style neck tassels, another man beside him plays a similar horn, and two men on the left and right carry double-headed drums (thavil) slung over their shoulders, one with a woven orange strap and one with a green-and-gold rim. Several other men in white stand in the background. A small orange and white garland decoration hangs over a red-framed doorway, and potted palms and a blue plastic chair sit near the entrance.2009-06-22December 30 20072007-12-30A street procession in Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, where a group of musicians in white dhotis and shirts play traditional instruments on a paved road. Several men play long nadaswaram-style wind instruments with flared bell ends, while others beat large two-headed drums with white heads and decorated wooden rims. One drummer wears a red shirt and an elderly man stands in the line. An orange cloth is draped over the shoulder of a man at the right edge. Two-story pink and cream houses, parked motorbikes, a yellow sign and a banana plant line the street under a partly cloudy sky.2006-10-16October 16 20062006-10-16June 22 20092009-06-22