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A man stands on a red stage holding a silver trishul with a twisted silver shaft in his left hand and raising his right arm. He wears a dark turban, red-maroon dhoti with gold border, a leopard-print shawl wrapped at the waist, a heavy gold necklace, and red-beaded bracelets. Behind him a large gilded relief of a multi-armed deity with a crown and a seated figure, flanked by carved relief figures, forms the backdrop. A tiger-striped cloth covers a raised seat at his feet. Swamiji (probable): the figure matches the page's Swamiji-at-event note through turban, gold necklace and trishul cues, presented as a performer on stage.