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Close photo of a man in an orange-saffron shawl with gold-and-black ceremonial bead necklace (gold ball beads) and a red bindi/tilaka on his forehead, seated before an ornate gold-leaf throne back. His right hand rests on the crown of another person's dark-haired head in the lower right foreground, a blessing gesture. Only the seated man and the partially visible head of the person being blessed are present; the gold throne with floral and scrollwork carving fills the background.