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Seven young women in matching orange-saffron dresses and shawls play drums and percussion during a procession on a paved courtyard beside a long tin-roofed open hall and coconut palms. The women wear layered red-beaded necklaces, gold necklaces, bangles, earrings and vermilion bindi marks; several have white and orange forehead markings. The drummers hold white-headed drums with drumsticks, one woman plays a long wooden horn-like instrument, and others walk barefoot in step together. Some are smiling and dancing while performing, forming a lively celebratory group on a sunny day.

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