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A night-time photograph of metal casting at an outdoor furnace. A glowing orange-red crucible sits in a low brick or earthen furnace, with molten metal visible inside. Two workers stand on either side handling long iron ladles with gloved hands: the man on the left wears a checked lungi and dark shirt and grips a ladle with a yellow glove, while the man on the right wears a bright turquoise t-shirt, a checked lungi and a white cloth on his head, and pours or tends a ladle of molten metal. Dark ground, scattered sticks and a wooden plank lie in the foreground, with a faint smoke plume rising from the furnace.

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