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Night photograph of a fire performance on a reddish dirt ground. A performer in red and dark costume with a painted or masked face stands before a large curved arc of bamboo-like frame ringed with burning torches, flames and smoke rising behind. Several onlookers in white kurta-style clothing watch from the edges, and one person crouches beside a drum on the right. The scene reads as a folk-style fire dance or torch display. No clearly identifiable a person figure is visible, so the performer and spectators are described by role only.

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