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Night procession photographed from a distance with a dark, grainy background and speckled light. A bare-backed man with long dark hair, wearing an orange cloth wrap, faces away from the camera and holds a large colourful fan-shaped ceremonial umbrella or canopy decorated with red, yellow, green and pink pompoms and flowers. Around him, men in white dhotis and white shirts carry tall white wooden poles or staffs, and one man in a maroon cloth stands nearby. On the right, a woman in an orange sari holds a silver-coloured metal vessel. The scene appears to be a temple or ashram procession at night.

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