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Photograph of a ritual blessing in a temple setting. A man with long dark hair and a white-painted face, wearing a dark red-orange shawl over bare shoulders, places his right hand on the head of a bare-chested young boy with short dark hair who has his eyes lowered. The boy wears a thin white cord and a small pendant. Behind them a man in white dhoti with gold-bordered yellow edging wears a large gold ornament and a rudraksha mala. A small brass deity head sits in the foreground. Several other people stand in the background, mostly bare-chested or in white.

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