A photograph of an outdoor blacksmith at work. A man in white clothing crouches on the ground, holding a hammer with a wooden handle in one hand and tongs gripping a glowing piece of hot metal over a stone anvil. Behind him a fire burns in a bed of dark charcoal, with a white plastic bucket and a woven sack on the left. Iron tools lie scattered in the dirt, and the scene is set on bare earth. - Nithyanandapedia

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A photograph of an outdoor blacksmith at work. A man in white clothing crouches on the ground, holding a hammer with a wooden handle in one hand and tongs gripping a glowing piece of hot metal over a stone anvil. Behind him a fire burns in a bed of dark charcoal, with a white plastic bucket and a woven sack on the left. Iron tools lie scattered in the dirt, and the scene is set on bare earth.

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