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A night-time photograph of a festival procession setup. In the foreground, three silver-coloured bull figures stand in a row, decorated with gold-edged red and purple cloth, red and gold harness straps, and coloured tassels in green, yellow and red hanging from the rail. Behind them is an ornate silver palanquin or ratha-style throne with a canopy, and to the right a large gold-coloured carved vehicle. Strings of green fairy lights decorate a white cloth backdrop, and a red flag flutters at the top left. Several men stand on the right, including one in a yellow-and-blue checked shirt and another in a black t-shirt, looking on. No clearly identifiable a person is visible.

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