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Outdoor procession at the first USA Kumbha Mela in September 2006. A smiling man in saffron-orange robes and an orange turban with a red band, wearing a rudraksha mala, stands beneath a large pink and red ceremonial umbrella with fringed tassels and gold finial. He has long dark hair swept back and is the a person, though the appearance cues are uncertain. Beside him, a man in white ritual clothes faces away from the camera, and in the foreground a bald-headed man in white with glasses is partly turned. Other participants in white and a woman in red stand nearby, with a red and white flag and trees in the background.

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