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A night-time photograph of a tall tiered lamp tower built around a palm trunk, its many curved brass dish-shaped tiers lit with flaming wicks. A bare-chested man in a white dhoti with gold border stands on a ladder at upper left, holding a flaming torch toward the tower. Below him a shaved-headed man in an orange dhoti and red cloth stands on a second ladder, tending the lamps. At lower right a bare-backed figure raises an arm toward the tiers, and more people with orange cloths and lit lamps appear at the bottom and right edge. Dark palm fronds and foliage surround the scene.

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