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A photo of a seated ritual at a Kumbh camp. In the foreground a man in a blue polo shirt holds a steel tray with a flame and orange offerings. Behind him a man in a plaid shirt and yellow shawl, with an orange turban, bends over a low wooden table. Several elderly sadhus in saffron robes and marigold garlands sit along the tiled wall, one with a long white beard. A person in a red shirt leans over the scene, and a sadhu in an orange headwrap stands in the back. Water bottles sit on the floor.

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Several seated sadhus in saffron and orange robes receive an aarti on a tiled floor, with low wooden tables before them. In the foreground, a bearded elder in orange clothing with a rudraksha mala and a yellow-orange marigold garland sits at right, his forehead marked with tilak. Men in yellow scarves and orange turbans, one in a red shirt, hold steel plates of marigold petals and lit oil lamps. A plastic water bottle and a wooden table sit in the foreground.2015-09-11September 11 20152015-09-11A photograph of a small tiled room where a bearded sadhu with long dishevelled grey hair, wearing an orange robe and a marigold garland, sits on the floor receiving a lit oil lamp on a steel plate. A man in a white dhoti with a yellow-bordered shawl leans in from the left, holding the plate near the flame, while another man in orange robes and a marigold garland tends the lamp beside him. At the lower right, an elderly sadhu in an orange turban and orange robes with rudraksha beads watches. The plate holds flower petals, rice-like grains and a small matchbox-style packet. The scene reads as a puja with an oil lamp.2015-09-10September 11 20152015-09-11A photograph of a seated ritual at a Kumbh camp: a bearded man in orange robes and a marigold garland sits in the lower left, while a sadhu in a maroon turban, bare-chested with a gold armlet and marigold garland, sits beside an older bearded sadhu in orange. At right, attendants in white and orange hold brass trays with oil lamps, and a silver tray with a lit flame and an orange envelope sits before them. The walls are pale tiled stone.2015-09-10A small tiled room with a window on the right. A man in a red t-shirt stands bent over a brass tray of marigold and yellow flowers on a low wooden table, threading a garland. Beside him, a younger man in a navy shirt and orange-beaded necklace also works on a garland. Seated center-right, an older man with long white hair and a white beard, wearing wire-rimmed glasses and an orange robe over a pink-and-white patterned lungi, touches his face. Behind him a figure in an orange turban, saffron robe and a large rudraksha mala sits on a striped mat. A flower garland and a bald head are visible at the bottom right edge.2015-09-11September 10 20152015-09-10A small stone-walled room where a priest in white dhoti and orange-bordered shawl, wearing marigold garlands, holds a steel plate with a burning lamp, flower petals and grains over a flame. A bearded sadhu in orange robes and a long grey-black hair sits on a mat wearing marigold garlands and a forehead mark, watching the ritual. Another man in orange clothes sits to the lower right wearing an orange turban, with rudraksha beads on his chest. A second orange-robed person is seated behind the plate near the wall. The ritual appears to be an aarti with a lit lamp on a metal tray.2015-09-10A photograph of an indoor ritual scene with a cream tiled wall. In the foreground a bearded man in orange robes and a marigold garland sits cross-legged, looking to the side. Beside him a figure in a deep red turban and red-brown clothing, also wearing a marigold garland and gold armband, sits with hands folded. Behind them an older bearded man in orange sits on a low bench. On the right, two men in white kurtas hold a brass tray with a lit oil lamp and an envelope, and another lamp flame burns on the table. Several marigold garlands and oil lamps are visible. No identity is asserted from appearance.2015-09-10September 11 20152015-09-11A photograph inside a tiled room showing a seated man in the foreground wearing an orange saffron robe and marigold garland, with a short dark beard and a wristwatch, looking to the right. Beside him sits a bearded sadhu in a red-brown turban, bare upper body with gold-trimmed saffron cloth and a marigold garland, next to another elderly bearded sadhu in orange. Attendants in white clothes hold brass plates with lit oil lamps and a flat metal tray holding a yellow envelope, a ritual offering moment.2015-09-10A photograph of a seated group in a tiled, white-walled space receiving aarti from attendants holding silver trays with flaming oil lamps. In the foreground, a bearded man in orange robes and a marigold garland sits with his hand near a tray, next to a man with a maroon turban, bare upper body, gold necklace and yellow marigold garland. Behind them an older bearded man in orange with a garland sits beside a red-and-gold cloth. Attendants in white on the right hold the trays. No identification of any individual is made from appearance; the page's a person reference is not visually confirmed.2015-09-10