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Photograph of a person seen from behind, standing before a small household shrine set into a wall with an orange-framed doorway. The shrine holds framed deity prints and calendar-style religious pictures, brass oil lamps on a tray, and yellow marigold flowers. Marigold garlands hang down beside the doorway. The standing person has dark hair in a bun, wears a white flower garland over the shoulder, a rudraksha mala of brown beads with a gold clasp, and a rust-red cloth. Red fabric and a gold-coloured decorative element appear at the upper right.

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June 22 20142014-06-22A woman with her hair in a bun and a white jasmine garland stands in a red sari before a small shrine alcove at a home altar, bending forward with an oil lamp lit on a brass tray before her. The alcove walls are covered with framed devotional prints and calendar-style pictures of deities, with yellow flowers tucked around the frames. Carved wooden doorway arches frame the scene, and a carved brown wooden panel hangs on the left wall. The setting suggests a padapuja at a devotee's house.2014-06-26July 04 20142014-07-04 +1 copiesJune 26 20142014-06-26July 10 20142014-07-10A woman in a sleeveless orange top with long dark hair stands with her back to the camera in a small shrine room with white marble walls. She lifts a lit oil lamp or wick toward a shrine wall decorated with yellow and red marigold garlands and a white flower garland draped over her shoulders. Brass oil lamps and offering plates sit on a wooden ledge at the lower right, with a small framed picture and a brass plate nearby. Another person's head is visible at the bottom edge.2010-02-15A woman seen from behind with dark hair in a bun stands in a doorway decorated with white jasmine and red, yellow and purple flower garlands strung overhead. She wears a dark red garment and a red and yellow flower garland around her neck, and she is reaching toward a small altar or shrine. On the wall behind her hang framed devotional prints of deity murti, one showing a seated goddess in red and yellow tones. A small oil lamp glows at the right edge. The walls are tiled in white with a green floral pattern.2014-07-04 +1 copiesJune 23 20142014-06-23 +2 copiesA man seen from behind, bare-shouldered and wearing an orange-saffron cloth draped over his shoulder, with a garland of white jasmine and red roses around his neck and across his back. He holds a lit oil lamp flame in a small shrine niche decorated with framed pictures of deities, brass lamps and a kalasha-like offering on a shelf. Above, strands of white flower garlands hang along a pink wall. Another person stands partly visible at the right edge. Festoons of flowers and a colourful painted frame surround the shrine.2014-07-02 +1 copiesJuly 01 20142014-07-01A woman in a rust-red blouse and red dress stands with her back to the camera before a small home shrine in a marble-walled alcove. A framed photograph of a figure in orange robes with a rudraksha-style necklace hangs on the wall, garlanded with white jasmine and red flowers, and the figure is not clearly a physical person in the scene. Below it sits a shrine table with red and yellow flowers, oil lamps, a brass plate with turmeric and kumkum, a small bell and a tray of offerings. The woman wears a white jasmine garland, red flowers in her hair and a gold bead necklace.2014-07-07 +1 copiesA woman in a maroon sari with a white and red flower garland stands at a home shrine niche, lighting a brass oil lamp with a lit flame held in her hand. The shelves hold framed deity pictures, small brass and silver figures and vessels decorated with white flowers, a wooden box with offerings, and a lamp on a tray. Printed devotional images hang on the yellow wall beside the niche. The scene shows a pada puja at a devotee's house.2014-06-26