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A shirtless man with long dreadlocked hair and a black headband balances barefoot on the top of a tall wooden pole, arms outstretched, wearing black boxer-style shorts and a thin chain necklace. Above him hang tall decorative cloth pillars in red, orange, green, blue and yellow with printed animal motifs and flower patterns, topped by fringed canopies and lanterns under a white tented ceiling. This appears to be a physical acrobatic performance rather than a ritual. No identifiable a person candidate is evident from appearance cues alone, so the figure is described by role and action only.

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