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Outdoor ceremony under a red and blue canopy with draped yellow and blue fabric. A man in a white shirt bends forward to offer a glass bowl of fruit and yellow flowers held by a man in a sleeveless red-brown garment; the figure on the right wears a long multi-strand gold and red-flower garland, a silver-and-red ornamented necklace, gold bangles and a dark hair knot, and smiles while receiving it. Beside him an older man in a white shirt and green-and-gold shawl wears a white garland. A woman in a dark top and two men in white shirts stand nearby, with more figures and a red ceremonial cloth behind.

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