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A photograph of a display shelf draped in red cloth holding colourful painted clay figurines of Hindu deities. Centre: a reclining Ganesha with an elephant head and a human-looking face, eyes closed, resting on one arm, reading from an open book, with a small mouse companion in orange and red beside it. Left foreground and left shelf: Lakshmi-like and Saraswati figures, the latter playing a veena. Right: a row of small seated figures, a blue-skinned Krishna-like deity in a crown, and other murti. Right edge shows a red and gold garment. Watermarked archive photo; no people are physically present.

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