Overhead view of a woven wicker basket holding several dried, fibrous brown bundles resembling tied-up roots or dried grass knots, on a striped reddish-brown woven mat. A second basket to the left holds pale puffed grain, and a third basket at right is filled with thin dried twigs and sticks. No people are visible. - Nithyanandapedia

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Overhead view of a woven wicker basket holding several dried, fibrous brown bundles resembling tied-up roots or dried grass knots, on a striped reddish-brown woven mat. A second basket to the left holds pale puffed grain, and a third basket at right is filled with thin dried twigs and sticks. No people are visible.

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