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Outdoor photo of three people in plain white ritual clothing working near a stone-edged well or water pit in a garden plot. A man with a rudraksha mala around his neck bends over a large stainless steel pot on the ground, and an older woman in a white sari-style cloth leans over a second steel vessel. A third man in a white shirt and dhoti stands behind them. A banana plant with broad green leaves grows to the left, with patchy grass, bare red soil and a small steel plate in the foreground. No one in the scene is clearly identifiable as a person from appearance, so the figures are described by role only.

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Outdoor photo in a green, scrubby hillside setting. Three devotees in plain white ritual dress stand together performing an offering. The young man on the left, bare-shouldered with a rudraksha mala, holds a brass kalasha steady while pouring. The woman in the centre, wearing a vermilion bindi and pink garment, holds a brass pot. The woman on the right, in white with a white shawl, pours water from a brass vessel over a bundle of pink and white flowers. A partially visible person stands at the far right edge. Sunlight falls on dry rocks and foliage behind them.2012-06-03June 30 20102010-06-30A photograph of an outdoor ritual at a stone mortar. A young man with long dark hair and bare chest, wearing an orange saffron dhoti and shawl, grips a tall wooden pestle and presses it into a stone mortar on the sandy ground. Around him, several onlookers stand: a man in a white kurta and dark-rimmed glasses with a black rudraksha-style necklace holds a metal plate, a bald man in a grey t-shirt and trousers watches, a woman with short red hair wears a white wrap, and another man in white stands in the background. An older bare-chested man with white moustache wears a white dhoti at right. Scattered white cloth scraps, leaves and a small bowl lie on the ground near shrubs and trees, with a few stones and a red plastic chair behind.2004-12-31Outdoor photo of a storm-damaged grounds clean-up under a metal-framed shelter. Two men in plain white shirts and white dhotis, one with a shaved head, walk through muddy ground and carry tools. A third man in white bends over at right, working in a flooded, muddy patch. A green garden hose lies across the mud, a white bucket sits near a plastic chair, and a large pile of cut wooden logs and broken branches stands behind them. Uprooted palms and bare trees surround the site under an overcast sky.2012-01-04A group of women in white and pastel saris and white dhotis-style clothing bend over working in a dry, freshly turned earth field, pulling roots or weeds by hand. A woman in the foreground on the left wears a lavender sari and a dark beaded necklace and holds plant material. Behind them, a low concrete building with windows, green shrubs, and trees stand under an open sky. The scene shows ashram-style communal farm labour.2006-09-05October 07 20062006-10-07December 28 20092009-12-28A photograph of an outdoor food-service site under a corrugated shelter beside palm trees and bare trees. Several people in white or pale kurtas and trousers wear green or white hair-nets and caps. A woman in a green sari with a red blouse stands at a large steel cooking pot on a bamboo-pole frame, and a man in a green shirt and white dhoti stirs or serves from it. Other steel vessels sit on the ground, and a bundle of firewood lies behind them. The people appear to be preparing food for distribution.2012-01-04October 08 20072007-10-08Outdoor photograph on a reddish-brown dirt ground under large shady trees. A woman in a white sari and white blouse bends forward, holding a shallow bowl of yellow and orange offerings, possibly flower petals or fruit, close to the ground. A man in a white dhoti and shirt sits cross-legged in the background near the trees, and another man in a red shirt and blue jeans bends over at the right edge. Stone slabs and roots lie on the ground.2006-12-30April 01 20082008-04-01October 08 20072007-10-08