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A man in a white short-sleeved shirt and white dhoti with a green border sits cross-legged on the ground, wearing glasses and a small tilak on his forehead. He hammers and cuts thin copper sheet with a small hammer and tool on a white cloth, while piles of curled copper scraps lie on the cloth and on a yellow sheet in the foreground. A larger hammer rests on the yellow cloth at right. Behind him are metal stands and a brass vessel on an orange mat. This is a photo of a metalwork task, not a person identified as a person.

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