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Night procession outdoors with performers in green costumes and tall peacock-feather fans rising from their backs, each with a jeweled gold headpiece and green hood. Performers in green and lime-yellow skirts with red trim dance with their backs to the camera. Behind them, an ornate multicoloured canopy or palanquin with fringed decorations stands among a crowd of onlookers, some in white shirts and lungis, and a drummer with a drum slung at his side. Fairy lights and string lights glow in the trees on the right, and a red flag flutters at left.

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December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23Night procession with performers in green peacock costumes, their heads topped with large fanned peacock feathers and beaked masks, wearing green and yellow-green skirts with red and orange bands. Behind them a decorated canopy and a red-and-gold kalasha-like spire rise against dark trees. Men in white dhotis and shirts walk among the crowd; a man in a yellow-and-white garment plays a long wind instrument at right, and drummers beat drums. Bright lights and a glowing pink drum rim add festive colour to the street.2016-12-23Night procession at a temple-town celebration. Performers in green costumes with large peacock-feather fans and bird-head masks dance forward, one holding a fan of peacock feathers. Behind them, drummers in white dhotis and orange-trimmed cloths play large drums, and a decorated ratha/chariot with a colourful striped canopy and a palanquin-style structure stands in the background. Onlookers in shirts and dhotis watch from the left. A pink-lit speaker sits at the right edge. No clearly identifiable a person is visible in this scene.2016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23December 23 20162016-12-23Outdoor photograph of performers in peacock costumes at a festival procession. Three visible performers wear blue and green peacock headpieces with red beaks and long dark peacock-feather trains, plus blue bodices with red, yellow and orange patterned trims and green skirts. One performer on the right raises a hand, and a partly visible figure on the left wears a white head wrap. Behind them stand a leafy tree, a utility pole with wires, and yellow-green pennant flags against a clear blue sky.2007-02-02Night procession scene outdoors on a paved ground. In the foreground, several performers with bright yellow-green body paint and leafy patterns, wearing orange and black loincloths and white head cloths, dance energetically in a circle. A drummer in white clothes plays a drum at centre. Behind them, a decorated palanquin or ratha with colourful patterned canopies and a red-and-white striped bell-shaped top stands under tents. Spectators in white shirts, dhotis and casual clothes watch, and at right two figures in ornate costume with gold crowns, peacock-style headdresses and a long staff stand beside a woman in a green sari with a purple border. Strings of lights hang on a tree at upper right.2016-12-23