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Night photograph of a fire-walking ritual on an open dirt ground. A long bed of glowing embers and white ash lies across the centre of the frame. Women in white saris with gold borders line up at the left, some with palms pressed together, and one woman walks toward the embers. On the right, a bare-chested man in a white dhoti with gold borders raises a hand in greeting. A figure in an orange-red robe stands near the centre holding a pink deity murti or idol on a tray. Men in dhotis and onlookers stand in the background in front of a red-walled building under a dark sky.

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March 12 20202020-03-12March 12 20202020-03-12March 12 20202020-03-12March 12 20202020-03-12March 12 20202020-03-12March 12 20202020-03-12December 30 20062006-12-30Night photograph of a fire-walking ritual pit. A long trench of glowing red embers and ash smoulders in the foreground, bordered by wooden poles and sticks laid across it. Behind it, a crowd of men in white dhotis and white shirts stands and watches around a raised white platform. On the platform is a lit lantern or oil lamp, a dark deity murti with garlands, and metal pots and vessels. Palm trees and a strip of blue and white bunting stretch across the dark background. The scene reads as a fire-walking ritual with devotees gathered around the altar, but no one is shown walking the coals and no prominent figure is singled out.2006-12-30Night photograph of a fire-walking ritual in an outdoor temple courtyard. A long pit of glowing red embers runs across the foreground, with smoke rising from it, bordered by wooden poles and rails. Many people dressed in white stand along the rails, some in white dhotis and shirts, one in a yellow-bordered sari. In the background a lit lamp stands on a raised platform near a tall pole, with a deity murti and white-draped structure beneath, under a string of pennant flags. A man in white with a blue bucket stands near the pit edge. No single person can be confidently identified as the a person from appearance alone.2006-12-30Photo 11742612December 30 20062006-12-30March 12 20202020-03-12