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A night-time photograph of a village-style setting with two large white painted clay pots, one tall and one slightly shorter, standing on a dirt ground in front of thatched-roof huts. The pots have red bands decorated with white geometric line patterns, and the huts' walls bear matching red and white painted borders. A small green shrub and a few dim lights are visible in the background. No people are present.

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A night-time photograph of a rustic village-style corner with a thatched-roof hut whose white walls have red and white geometric border painting. A tall black lamp post with a glowing lantern stands beside a bamboo railing. To the left, a large white earthen pot with a red painted band sits behind a leafy green sapling tree, and a broad-leafed banana plant grows on the right. The ground is bare earth. No people are visible.2010-09-26Night photograph of a rural village scene at a thatched-roof open pavilion with orange wooden pillars and a whitewashed wall decorated with painted figures and a red-and-white patterned dado. A street lamp stands beside a yellow bamboo railing. Inside the pavilion, a few people in white clothes sit and bend low on the ground, and a woman in a green sari sits at the right edge beside a hanging basket and a small light. The setting appears to be a rural camp or exhibition area with a lit pathway in the foreground.2010-09-26A night photograph under a thatched straw roof at an open-sided shelter with a white-washed wall decorated with brown and white geometric patterns and a red painted base band. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts work at metal vessels and a large clay pot on a raised red platform. One bare-chested man in a white dhoti stands at left near a yellow pillar, and another man stands at the right edge. Two men sit at ground level. A yellow bamboo railing runs across the foreground, and lights glow in the background.2010-09-26February 03 20102010-02-03Night photograph of a thatched-roof open pavilion with terracotta-red pillars decorated with white painted swirl motifs. Under the thatch, two men in white dhotis sit on the ground near a small sunken fire pit or hearth, one bent low and tending it. A large round woven bamboo basket or grain bin stands at right. Behind them a blue-framed doorway and a painted wall with a standing figure in red and white. Green shrubs with small purple flowers fill the lower left foreground.2010-09-26A large reddish-brown terracotta pot with a pointed knob lid stands on bare sandy ground at night, decorated with a white kolam-style line pattern on its side. Dark trees with thin branches and feathery leaves frame it, with blurred light spots and a distant orange light in the background. No people are visible.2010-09-26A rural campus scene at dusk with a whitewashed single-storey building featuring a maroon wooden door, red diamond-shaped trim along the roofline, and a few white plastic chairs on a small verandah. To the right stands an open thatched pavilion on wooden posts, with a tree-shaded dirt path and green grass in the foreground. No people are visible.August 03 20092009-08-03A street scene beside a thatched palm-frond wall with a small framed picture hung on it. In the foreground stand terracotta pots, including large unglazed water vessels and tall stacked pots. Two figure-shaped clay pot stands, decorated with white bands and coloured geometric motifs in red and green, support stacked pots. Behind them a wooden trestle table sits along a dusty road lined with parked motorbikes, small concrete buildings and a distant hill. A man in white clothing is partly visible at the right edge.A whitewashed rural building with a steeply pitched thatched roof of dried palm fronds sits on bare reddish earth. A wooden door stands open at the front, and a small window with shutters is on the side wall. A second thatched structure stands behind it at right, and a plain concrete-block wall is at left. A small blue stool and a plastic tray lie near the doorway. No people are visible. +1 copiesNight-time photograph of an outdoor garden of small thatched-roof shrines with red-and-white striped plinths, arranged around a dirt path lined with young saplings. Each plinth-shrine holds a small deity murti under a thatched canopy, with strings of lights and orange-and-saffron flags above. Purple and orange information boards list Tamil text, and a green board stands at the right edge. A few figures in white clothing are faintly visible among the shrines, but none is clearly identifiable.2009-08-05A village-style courtyard scene with a blue-painted wooden door, whitewashed wall with white kolam designs, and red and yellow painted bands on the earthen plinth. In the foreground a seated figure in a light blue shirt and white dhoti grinds grain on a stone quern with a wooden handle, with a potted green plant at lower left. Behind, a standing figure in a white shirt and white dhoti pulls a rope hanging from the wall. An orange-painted pillar stands at the left edge beneath a thatched roof. The figures appear to be sculpted or lifelike figures rather than clearly living people.2010-09-26