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A photograph of a performer in a bright lime-green sleeveless top and lime-green loose shorts with an orange waistband and red leggings, performing a kavadi-style act. He wears a sandalwood tilak on his forehead and a thin necklace, and carries a wooden kavadi frame with yellow wooden pots and peacock-feather and blue-yellow fabric decorations. A thin blue-and-yellow ribbon or thread runs from his mouth. Behind him, a seated musician and audience members, including a woman in a red sari with a white flower in her hair and a woman in a beige top with a garland, watch. White lattice screens and a white fan are visible.

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A performer in a bright green sleeveless top and green shorts over red leggings and ankle bells dances at the centre of a bare floor, holding coloured ribbons and a decorated arched frame with feathered tassels overhead. Behind him a drummer in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a large barrel drum. Seated women in white garments and floral garlands watch from the left, and white draped fabric and lattice windows decorate the hall.2009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22A photograph of a cultural performance on a stage with a pale teal backdrop. A performer in a bright green sleeveless top, red shorts and an orange waist sash stands with palms pressed together in namaste beside a small ornate wooden stool with gold and blue trim. To the left, a musician in a white shirt and dhoti plays a long wooden pipe. Behind them, a row of seated devotees in white clothes and flower garlands watches from the floor and chairs, with a few audience members visible at the bottom edge of the frame. Ceiling fans and lattice windows line the hall.2009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22A photograph of a folk performance in a plain hall with tiled walls and a lattice window. A performer in a bright green sleeveless top, green shorts over red trousers, a red waist sash and dark ankle bells stands on a light floor, bending forward with one hand on a knee while a glass bottle lies on the mat before him. Behind him, a drummer in white sits at a large drum on the left. Two men in yellow and cream dress stand to the right, one with a dark-brown dhoti and yellow shirt holding a small device, the other in a maroon shirt and white dhoti. A decorated wooden structure with a yellow fabric top and fringed panels stands in the background beside a teal curtain painted with figures. Total visible people: four.2009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22June 22 20092009-06-22A performer in a bright lime-green sleeveless top, red track trousers and ornate metal-studded anklets stands on a hall floor carrying a long wooden pole decorated with red-and-yellow tassels and dark feather plumes, attached to a large curved golden-fringed blue ornamental frame. Behind him, a second performer in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a long curved brass horn. To the right, a man in a cream kurta and orange dhoti stands beside a white pillar. A white pedestal fan, an orange bag and a lattice window sit in the background, and a brown wooden door is set in a white wall.2009-06-22