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Photograph looking up at a tall polished copper ritual pole, ringed with bands, topped with a carved finial and a streamer of orange-red cloth fluttering from a rope against a clear blue sky. Beneath a corrugated roof of open-sided pandal, the base of the pole is wrapped with green leaves and a white flower garland. Several people stand in the foreground: a woman in a dark garment with a white flower garland in her hair, and others partly visible at the left edge, one holding a rope. Hanging lamps and red decorations line the pandal. A grey stone pillar or figure is visible at the lower right.

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