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A street procession on a sunny day, with a wooden palanquin on a red-framed cart carried by men. Several men in white vests and dhotis pull and steady the cart with ropes and poles. Two figures on the palanquin wear white cloth and garlands, and a man in a yellow shirt walks alongside. Shops, a signboard and a building are visible behind, and a cameraman stands at the left edge.

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A street procession in a Tamil Nadu town: a wooden palanquin with a cream roof and red frame carries several seated statues draped in cream cloth and garlanded with white flowers, pulled along a road by men in white banians and dhotis. Devotees walk alongside, including a bearded man in a white sleeveless vest and an older man with a bare chest. Shop signs and a billboard line the street, and a palanquin pole is decorated with green and orange cloth. Readable Tamil text appears on the shop fronts and a banner.2012-06-05 +2 copiesA street procession of several cream-roofed wooden palanquins mounted on a green wheeled cart, each carrying a row of seated deity murtis draped in white and pink cloth with garlands. A man in a white sleeveless vest and brown dhoti stands in the foreground while other men and onlookers watch from the roadside beside red shutters and a palm-thatched roof.2012-06-05 +1 copiesA street procession in a Tamil town. A golden palanquin with a red and gold canopy and a green-wrapped pole carries a deity image beneath a red cloth panel showing a standing figure. Men in white dhotis and shirts walk beside it, a bare-chested man in a red cloth wears rudraksha, and a man in orange dhoti pushes the palanquin. A police officer stands among onlookers and shops with Tamil signage line the road. No figure with distinctive a person cues is clearly identifiable, so this is a festival procession with devotees and crowd.2012-06-05Outdoor street procession at a Tamil Nadu temple-festival. A cream-coloured palanquin with a red wooden base carries several seated bronze-like deity murtis and figures draped in cream and gold-bordered cloth with white garlands. A devotee in a white vest raises a silver lamp stand with several burning oil lamps and smoke rising. A crowd of men pulls the palanquin along a street, with uniformed police visible at right. Shops and signboards line the background.2012-06-05 +1 copiesA street procession in Madurai, India, shows a wooden palanquin carrying seated saint statues draped in cream and red cloth with white garlands. A priest in a white shirt raises a silver aarti plate with burning oil lamps toward the figures. Devotees in white and vests crowd the roadside, with uniformed police behind. Hindu ceremonial procession with aarti during a temple festival.2012-06-05 +1 copiesOutdoor procession scene at a temple festival. A row of wooden palanquin-like frames holds several seated statue figures draped in sheer cream and red cloth with gold borders, garlanded with white flower strands, with orange tilaka marks on their foreheads. In the foreground, a person with a grey bun and a clear crystal-bead necklace, seen from behind, is bent forward near the carrier poles, and several men in yellow and white shirts crowd around the frames. A uniformed police officer in a peaked cap stands at the upper right.2012-06-05 +1 copiesA street procession in a Tamil town. In the foreground a bare-chested man with a hair knot and a rudraksha mala stands with his back to the camera, wearing a mustard-yellow lower cloth. Beside him a man in a white shirt and white dhoti stands on the road, and a man in a maroon sleeveless top and orange-tasselled waist cloth walks barefoot. Behind them a crowd of onlookers stands along the street. A uniformed police officer in khaki, holding a stick, stands at right near parked motorcycles. Ahead, a wooden palanquin with a white canopy carries several figures draped in white and red cloth. Shop fronts and a cream-coloured building line the roadway.2012-06-05 +1 copiesJune 05 20122012-06-05Outdoor street procession in a Tamil town. A palanquin with a wooden canopy is carried along a crowded road, with figures in bright red and white garments visible under its cover. In the foreground a bare-chested man with a long rudraksha mala and a bun of hair holds a coconut. Men in white dhotis and shirts walk beside the palanquin, one in a maroon vest and saffron-yellow sash gestures toward it. Police officers in khaki stand along the roadside, shops and motorcycles line the street, and a woman in an orange sari with a pendant walks at left.2012-06-05 +1 copiesOutdoor procession at an ashram courtyard under a tin-roofed canopy. Devotees in white dhotis and white shirts carry a red wooden palanquin bearing a decorated deity murti, a seated figure in blue and gold with a crown, garlanded with yellow, white and red flowers. A woman in an orange sleeveless top and a rainbow flower garland holds a brass oil lamp with a lit flame, walking beside the palanquin. A man in black shirt and white dhoti carries the pole near the front, and a bald man in white pulls the pole at right. A young man with a vibhuti tilak on his forehead stands at left. Behind them a crowd of devotees gathers under a white building with a signboard, and some people stand on steps watching.2009-12-23January 16 20182018-01-16A street procession in daylight. In the foreground a bare-chested man in a white vest and a red-and-white garland of marigolds, with a red tilak on his forehead, grips a wooden pole of an orange-and-yellow canopied palanquin decorated with white and yellow flower garlands and purple drapery. To the left, a man in a checked shirt walks beside it, and another man in a white shirt stands behind. Behind them, a white-clad man in a dhoti with a yellow garland walks in the procession, while a white conical decorated structure is carried in the background among palm fronds and smoke. The scene looks like a ratha/palanquin procession on a village road.2006-11-13