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A seated, smiling person in saffron-orange ceremonial clothing and a red-brown headwrap sits cross-legged before large painted backdrops of deities. A blue-skinned Shiva with a crescent and a white bull-headed figure with trident are painted at right, and an elephant-headed Ganesha and a goddess with a red flower in her hair appear at left. The seated figure wears layered rudraksha-style beaded malas and holds a small wooden sign reading FAMILY on the floor. Strings of pearls and a dark braided hairpiece hang in the foreground. No visible identity cue is strong enough to name the seated person.

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