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A photograph inside a workshop hall with a whitewashed wall and wire-mesh windows, where bronze and metal deity murti sculptures are displayed on wooden stands. Two people stand at right: one with a shaved head and bare back wearing an orange shawl and holding a long staff with a red flower, and another with long dark hair wearing a maroon and orange-striped cloth. Behind them are more metal sculptures, tools, a metal arch and wooden tables, with a dark patch of metal scrap in the foreground. The shaved-head figure and the figure with long hair are presented as a priest and a sannyasi; no identifiable appearance cues confirm a person.

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