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A photograph inside a temple hall during a ritual procession. A man with long dark hair and a beard, wearing an orange silk garment over his bare upper body, stands at right with his hands raised to his head. Beside him, a bare-chested priest in orange and saffron cloth with a gold armlet is adorned with a pink flower garland, and a woman in a pink garland and gold headpiece stands among attendants. A gold palanquin, a fringed red and gold canopy, and white and pink floral garlands fill the foreground, with an elderly white-haired devotee in white and gold at right. Several attendants in white and orange cloth crowd the scene. The visible man has long hair and a beard and wears distinctive orange silk and ornate adornments, so the appearance-based label applies, though it is uncertain.

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