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Outdoor photo on a wet, muddy dirt ground after rain. A smiling woman in a cream sari with an orange border and a yellow shawl walks barefoot holding a stick, while a clay pot hangs from a rope above her, apparently for a pot-breaking game. Behind her, a boy in a checked shirt and dark trousers and four men stand watching: one in white kurta and pants with a rudraksha-style necklace, one in grey shirt and blue harem pants with arms folded, and one in an orange shirt and checked lungi. A tall red pole stands at right; wet footprints, slippers and scattered sticks lie on the ground. Several people are visible, and the scene is a casual game rather than a formal ritual.

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Outdoor photo of a woman in a cream sari with a yellow shawl and red border, barefoot and mid-jump, reaching up to strike a clay pot hung from a rope on a tall red pole. Water sprays around her from a girl in a blue top and grey trousers holding a green container at left. Men in white and grey clothes stand watching at right, one with a rudraksha-style mala, and a boy in a checked shirt stands behind them. The ground is wet dirt with puddles under a cloudy sky.2010-09-02Outdoor scene on a dusty red-earth ground under a heavy grey cloudy sky. A central man in a wet, translucent pale pink-lavender dhoti-style garment, with a rudraksha-style necklace, raises a wooden stick and strikes a clay pot hanging from a rope on a tall red metal frame, while water sprays from his body and the pot. Around him, women in white and cream saris and kurtas hold orange and teal buckets, and a woman in a yellow-bordered sari stands at left. 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Behind him a man in saffron-orange robes walks on the wet ground holding a stick, and a few other people in white and light clothing stand or walk nearby, including a woman in white with a teal bucket at the right edge. A tall pole and a rope run diagonally across the frame.2010-09-02December 28 20062006-12-28Outdoor photo of a Janmashtami dahi handi-style celebration on a muddy, wet ground under an overcast sky. A man in white kurta and white dhoti with a yellow waist cord leaps high in the air, arm raised toward a clay pot hung on a rope between two tall red-brown poles. Around him, devotees in white and yellow-sashed white clothes stand and gesture, some holding green and pink colored powder or water. A bald man in white stands nearby, and a child in grey is at right. Spectators in the background include a woman in a teal headscarf and people in casual clothes. Blue plastic drums and small containers sit at right, and metal poles and a tree appear in the distance.2010-09-02Outdoor photo of a Janmashtami-style pot-breaking game on wet, muddy ground under an overcast sky. A tall metal frame holds a hanging clay pot on a rope. Participants in white and pale clothing, some with yellow shawls, splash water and pink-tinted liquid at each other. A woman in a purple top and dark trousers stands barefoot at center, smiling. A bald man in white stands at right holding a red bucket, and a young man in brown uniform-style clothes stands at far right. Blue drums and buckets sit along the edges. a person is not identifiable by the given cues, so no candidate is marked.2010-09-02Outdoor photo on a bare dirt ground after rain, with a rust-coloured metal gantry holding a clay pot suspended from a rope, a common Krishna Janmashtami dahi-handi style activity. 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Women in cream saris with red borders stand at left. Several children and onlookers in mixed clothing watch from the sides. Festive water-pouring activity, consistent with a Janmashtami-style celebration.2010-09-02Outdoor photograph at dusk of a sandy open ground beneath a blue steel frame from which several terracotta pots hang on ropes. In the centre, a woman in a pale yellow sari with an orange blouse raises a long wooden stick overhead, swinging toward the pots. Around her, many people in white traditional clothes stand and watch, including a man in a white shirt and white dhoti near the right with a stick in hand, and a man in white shirt and dark trousers on the far right. A low dark-roofed building with red walls stands in the background.2006-12-28Outdoor photo on dry dirt ground beside a shallow puddle. In the foreground a bare-chested man with long dark hair wears an orange-saffron dhoti and holds a long rope, pointing toward a wooden frame. A clay pot hangs from a crossbar on tall wooden posts. Beside it a man in an orange shirt and white dhoti stands with a long orange cloth. Behind them a large crowd of about forty men in white, orange and dark clothes stands watching under a pale sky with trees and a metal scaffold at the left edge.2006-12-25