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Two boys kneel on a bare concrete floor shaping a flat clay slab with a small tool. The boy on the left wears a yellow t-shirt and a dark wooden bead mala and watches the viewer. The boy on the right wears a white shirt and light shorts, with clay dust on his arms and legs, and holds a blade pressing into the clay. The slab holds small sculpted figures in relief, including a standing figure and a seated figure. Behind them, a man in a tan shirt and white dhoti stands at the edge of the frame, and an open doorway, lattice windows and wooden cabinets fill the room. No a person candidate is visible.

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