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Photograph inside a temple hall during a ritual. In the foreground, a figure with a bare back and an orange-red wrapped cloth on the head, wearing a garland, holds a cloth-wrapped object toward a black stone deity murti dressed with white and red flower garlands, a rudraksha-style necklace and a white loincloth. A second black stone murti with a crown and flower garland is at the lower right. Behind them, men in white dhotis and orange shawls, one holding a camera, press in close to watch. A brass pot stands in the lower left corner, and a decorated canopy hangs above. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible.

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