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A photograph of a Bonalu festival scene outdoors at a temple ground. Several women in saris and heavy gold-toned necklaces dance around a smouldering fire pit, one holding a long stick raised overhead with a decorated top. A drummer in a grey shirt plays a large drum at left, and another drummer plays a drum at right. A man in orange clothing stands in the background near a striped tent, with other people watching nearby. Ash and charred material lie in the pit, and red-orange powder covers the ground. No one visible is clearly identifiable as a person.

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