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Three workers in a makeshift open-sided shelter of blue tarpaulin and woven bamboo matting work at a small clay furnace with a bright fire. The man on the left, in a striped shirt and white head cloth, uses long tongs; the man on the right, in a checked shirt and light blue turban, holds a tool near a small metal figure being worked; a third person sits behind a bamboo lattice. A round dark dish and a blue plastic bucket sit on the ground, with bricks and sand around the base. No swami or a person candidate is clearly visible. The scene looks like metalwork or casting for temple construction.

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