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A photograph of a single seated woman meditating at the centre of a ring of burning logs and dung cakes on bare sandy ground outdoors. She wears a white garment with a yellow border and an orange shawl draped over her shoulders, and has a forehead mark and hair pulled back. Small flames flicker along the ring, and a clay bowl sits beside her on the ground. Green grass and a pipe stand appear at the upper left. No portrait or a person candidate is visible.

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