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Night-time photograph in a covered cowshed with a corrugated roof and bamboo-railed pens. A shaved-headed man in a bare chest and white dhoti stands with palms joined in namaskar in front of a small red-washed altar. On the altar is a framed portrait of a saffron-robed figure garlanded with flowers, flanked by a lit oil lamp, a brass vessel and a yellow and maroon cloth. Two cows stand in the foreground, one white calf and one larger brown-and-white cow draped with a green cloth and a red garland, with more cattle visible behind. The man appears to be a priest performing gau puja; the framed portrait depicts a saffron-clad figure in a framed portrait, not a physical person present.

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