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A covered wooden boat with a tarpaulin roof carries a group of about fifteen people across a wide river in hazy light. Several passengers wear white clothes, and some wear saffron or orange garments, while a boatman in white stands at the stern with an oar. Wooded hills and a town of white and cream buildings line the far bank. The boat has red and green striped sides with Hindi lettering painted on its hull.

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A photograph of a long white boat with green and red trim and a canopy crosses a wide river under a hazy sky. Around two dozen people sit on benches under the canopy, many in white or saffron-orange clothing, some wearing orange scarves and head coverings. A boatman in a light shirt stands at the stern handling an outboard motor, and hills with scattered buildings rise behind the water. Red Hindi lettering on the hull reads dham. No individual can be identified as the a person from appearance here, so the a person field is unsure.2006-01-05January 06 20062006-01-06A wide river photo taken from the water looking toward a hillside town on a hazy day. Muddy brown river water fills the foreground. On the far bank, a row of white and pastel buildings, ghats and a tall tower sit at the base of forested green hills. A small red passenger boat with a white canopy carries a group of people across the river on the right. No identifiable a person figure is visible in the scene.2014-03-18A photograph of a green wooden boat carrying many passengers across a river. Passengers sit on benches and along the railing, including people in orange and white clothing, women in headscarves and shawls, and a man in a light blue shirt at the bow. Behind them stretch riverside steps, ghats, white and cream buildings and a wall along the water under a pale hazy sky.2006-01-06A red motorised boat with a blue canopy carries roughly a dozen seated passengers across a wide, greyish-green river. A pilot sits at the stern near the outboard motor. On the far bank, stone ghat steps lead up to buildings, with a green-roofed structure and a small white kiosk visible. The scene is a daytime river crossing with no ritual activity shown.2014-01-19A wide hazy river scene on the Ganga at Varanasi. In the foreground a large wooden boat is crowded with about thirty passengers, many in orange and red clothing and some wearing white head coverings, while a standing boatman in orange at the stern steers. An orange flag flies from the stern. Further back, several other boats and small groups of people are scattered across the pale river and sandbank, with tents and canopies visible on the far bank under a grey sky.2015-10-02A wide river scene with a long yellow motorboat carrying a small group of people under a grey canopy, moving across brownish water toward the right. Behind is a steep forested hill, with temple buildings and a white tower visible on the left bank beside a ghat. The sky is pale and hazy with scattered clouds. The people are seated under the canopy and appear to be passengers, with no ritual activity visible.2014-03-18A photograph of a green wooden boat crowded with passengers on a wide river at Varanasi. Many people sit closely on the benches, many women wearing headscarves and saris in orange, pink, blue and green, and some men in white. A boatman in a light blue shirt sits at the stern. Behind the water rise old buildings, a long yellow-ochre riverside wall and stone steps leading down to the ghats under a pale blue sky.2006-01-06January 05 20062006-01-05January 06 20062006-01-06A photograph of a wooden boat with a thatched or canvas canopy carrying a group of about fifteen people, mostly women in colourful saris and salwar kameez in yellow, pink, green, blue and orange, sitting close together under the shade. The boat moves across a wide, muddy-brown river. Beyond a pale sandbank, a line of trees and a few low buildings sit along the far bank under a hazy sky.May 14 20142014-05-14