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A photograph from a outdoor ritual at a large white tent. Tall gold ceremonial poles with red flags and bundles of green leaves and grass rise into the sky, held by ropes. In the foreground, a man in saffron-orange robes and a yellow-and-orange marigold garland pulls a rope while raising his arm, with long dark hair and a grey beard. Beside him, a man in an orange turban and marigold garland stands. Behind the poles, a man in a red-brown dhoti and sash with a beaded necklace and white forehead markings stands near a gold urn. A photographer in a red shirt stands at left. Gold lamp stands and a bronze stand with a lion figure appear at right. Appearance-based probable candidate: Swamiji (probable), wearing saffron robes, marigold garland and long swept-back hair, pulling a rope in the foreground.

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