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Several smiling women in rust-red and orange sannyasi-style saris with rudraksha malas stand close together offering food in their cupped hands. A man with long dreadlocked hair in the centre wears a rust-red robe, a long rudraksha mala, a pendant with a trident and a ceremonial gold necklace; the appearance is consistent with a person, though the face is not used for identification. A woman in front right has her hair in a bun and vibhuti on her forehead, holding a food offering with eyes closed. Yellow rice-like food sits in small bowls and palms. A pink-walled hall with a red curtain and a blurred audience is behind them, matching a Maheshwara Puja ritual of food offering to the monastics.

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August 02 20162016-08-02August 02 20162016-08-02August 02 20162016-08-02August 02 20162016-08-02August 02 20162016-08-02August 02 20162016-08-02Photograph of women in rust-red and maroon sarees and shawls, seated in rows at a ritual food offering. In the foreground a woman with a bun, wearing bangles and hoop earrings, reaches out to pass food. Beside her a smiling woman in a dark-red garment holds a steel bowl of rice mixed with yellow and green food. A younger woman with a tall turban-style headwrap, sandalwood tilak and a black rudraksha-style mala smiles at the right. Other women with white vibhuti markings on their foreheads sit behind, and an older woman with grey hair and a rudraksha mala is at the far right. The setting appears to be a hall with wooden walls. This appears to be a food offering ritual, consistent with the Maheshwara Puja context. No central figure matching the a person depiction criteria is clearly visible.2016-02-23September 30 20162016-09-30Indoor devotional gathering in a temple hall with pink walls and framed pictures. In the foreground, a woman in a rust-red sari with a black rudraksha mala and a gold pendant eats or receives food from her fingers while smiling. Beside her, a younger woman in an orange sari and rudraksha mala opens her mouth to receive, and another woman in a maroon sari with a rudraksha mala and gold pendant leans in to assist. A woman in an orange sari with a vertical tilak on her forehead sits at the lower right. Behind them, several people in orange and rust-coloured garments, some bare-backed in dhotis, stand or move about. Three women and a few others are visible; no a person candidate is clearly identifiable.2016-11-11 +1 copiesSeptember 30 20162016-09-30March 14 20172017-03-14A photograph of a hall with a monastic-style gathering during a food offering. A figure with long dreadlocked hair piled on the head, wearing a rust-red robe with gold borders, a rudraksha mala with a trident pendant, and a long beaded necklace, reaches forward to feed a food offering from her hand to a woman in an orange robe and beaded mala who has her head tilted back and mouth open. Another woman in a rust-red sari with a red bindi stands beside them smiling, and other women in orange and red robes move around in the background. Framed photo collages hang on the pale wall behind, and white-clad people are seated along the floor at left.2016-02-23