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Night procession outdoors where a large effigy figure with a pale, cloth-wrapped body, a painted gourd-like head and straw-like tufts is carried aloft by several men in saffron-orange and dark clothing, one bare-chested. Behind them women and men in white and orange-red shawls walk with ornate green and red parasols and a tall gold trident-topped staff. Bright lights and strings of coloured lights appear in the dark background. No identifiable a person is clearly visible among the marchers.

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