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Women in saffron-orange and teal saris tend clay pots of boiling milk over a brick hearth during a Pongal cooking ritual. Sugarcane stalks with leaves frame the pots, and yellow and red flower garlands are laid around the hearth and pots. Smoke rises, a rangoli kolam design marks the ground, and a banana leaf with offerings sits at lower right. Several women wear rudraksha malas. No a person is visible in the frame.

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January 14 20182018-01-14January 14 20182018-01-14KAILASA FAMILIA PORTUGUESA, PORTUGAL on 1/14/20182018-01-14 +1 copiesJanuary 14 20182018-01-14January 15 20162016-01-15A Pongal cooking ceremony under a corrugated roof at an outdoor gathering. A clay pot, decorated with white painted patterns and a garland of yellow and red flowers, sits on a brick hearth where a fire burns. Sugarcane stalks with leaves are tied in a frame above the pot, and a flower garland surrounds the hearth on the ground. Women in red, orange and green saris and one in a dark blue sari stand around, several holding lamps or pots and some with hands pressed together in prayer. A kolam with white patterns is drawn on the floor, and a red carpet runs beside it. Several people are visible and most are women.2018-01-14Pongal celebration under an open thatched shelter at an ashram. Two clay pots with white patterns sit on brick hearths ringed with yellow and red flower garlands, with fire burning beneath them. Sugarcane stalks are tied into arches above the pots. Women in saffron-orange and red-pink saris and a teal sari stand with palms pressed together in prayer, and a bare-chested man in orange dhoti and rudraksha mala raises his arms beside the fire. Red mats and white rangoli kolam patterns cover the ground. Several people are visible, and a cameraman films at the right edge.2018-01-14Pongal celebration outdoors under a thatched shelter with sugarcane stalks tied at the corners. Two clay pots of boiling milk sit on brick hearths with burning wood, ringed with yellow and red flower garlands, and white kolam rangoli designs decorate the brick. Women in saris stand at the pots: on the left a woman in a teal sari pours from a metal vessel, and in the center a woman in orange and a woman in red-and-maroon sari stir or tend the second pot. Behind them several women in orange, red, pink and white saris and a man in orange robes stand watching, and a camera is held at the right edge. Floral garlands and a red floor covering frame the scene.2018-01-14A woman in an orange sari with a white forehead mark and red bindi tends a yellow clay pot on a brick hearth, the pot topped with a green leaf and a flame burning beneath it, as is typical of a Pongal boiling ritual. Sugarcane stalks stand on either side of the pot, and a basket of dry plant material sits at lower left. Behind her, several people in orange and white robes stand with hands folded, and a colourful kolam floor design is visible. A red pillar frames the right edge. Visible people: about five, mostly in orange and white attire.2016-01-15January 14 20182018-01-14January 15 20162016-01-15A clay pot of boiling pongal rice sits on a wood fire built between two stacked brick blocks, with flames licking its black base. Two sugarcane stalks with leaves frame the pot, tied at the rim with a green band. Behind it, the legs of people in a white dhoti and a maroon-and-saffron cloth stand on a paved courtyard, and a second clay pot is at the left edge. This Pongal cooking ritual marks the harvest festival. No readable a person candidate is visible, only the lower bodies of people.2016-01-15