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A folk performance on a cream-coloured floor inside a white tented pavilion with yellow and multicoloured painted pillars and ceiling fans. Several performers in colourful costumes with feathered headdresses and ornate dress dance in the centre, one carrying a small figure aloft. Drummers in white dhotis and shirts play hand drums, and a musician plays a long wind instrument. Seated audience members in white sit along the left and back walls, and a teal backdrop with a painted map-like panel stands at the right. Spectators in the foreground watch from the lower right.

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