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Photograph of a seated ritual gathering indoors against a pale, weathered wall. Three saffron-robed men in orange garlands sit on low platforms: on the left a bearded younger man in an orange shawl and marigold garland, in the centre a man in a rust-red turban and red-brown cloth wrapped in gold-toned beaded necklaces and marigold garlands, and on the right an older white-bearded man in orange robes and a marigold garland with folded hands. Two men in white shirts sit in the foreground, one tending a small brass lamp with a flame at lower right. A striped cloth lies behind the seated figures.

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