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Outdoor photograph of a procession starting at a village roadside. Two ornate gold-and-orange palanquins are decorated with yellow and white marigold garlands and hold deity murtis, including a standing figure in the left palanquin. On the left, a bare-chested man in orange cloth stands by the palanquin. In the foreground, a man in a saffron-orange turban and long orange cloth, with long dark hair, extends his arm toward the deities. Behind him, several men in white dhotis and white shirts stand barefoot on a green-and-white striped mat near a plate of offerings. A blue-and-white arch and a concrete building with shuttered shops frame the scene. The foreground man's appearance is uncertain and the page flags a person's presence, but his identity cannot be confirmed from appearance alone, so he is described by role.

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