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A man stands before a dark carved Nataraja-style dancing deity relief against cream drapery. He wears a red-orange dhoti with gold border, layered orange and gold beaded garlands, a green bead mala and a gold pendant, with gold bangles on his arms. His hair is swept up with a silver ornament, and his forehead bears yellow paste with a red dot. He raises one hand toward his head while the other rests on his hip. A small oil lamp appears at the lower edge. The image is a photograph of one person.

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December 13 20152015-12-13A man stands in front of a cream curtain and a dark carved relief of a dancing figure, with a fan-like ornamental edge behind him. He wears a tall black hair bun with a small silver pin, a red tilak on his forehead, gold earrings, and a deep saffron-orange cloth wrapped at the waist. Layered orange and gold beaded garlands hang across his chest, with a green bead mala and a gold pendant. Gold bangles are on his upper arms and wrists. His hands are crossed at his waist in a poised, frontal stance. Swamiji (probable): long swept hair, saffron-orange ornate clothing, rudraksha-style and gold ceremonial necklaces, and a crown-like hair arrangement; he is presented here as the central figure of a darshan.2015-12-13A standing man in saffron-orange robes and layered rudraksha and gold mala necklaces, with a dark swept-up hairstyle topped by a small crescent ornament, yellow and red tilak on the forehead and gold armbands. He raises one hand near his chest while the other rests on his hip, gazing upward. A large dark silhouette of a dancing deity form, with a circular arch, stands behind him against a cream curtain, and a small brass lamp sits at the lower right. a person: the saffron garments, ornate gold and rudraksha necklaces and voluminous hair give cues matching the page's reference to a person, presented in a darshan-style stage setting.2015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13A photograph of a man standing on a raised wooden platform in front of a large painted backdrop of a carved deity relief in muted tones. He wears a saffron-orange draped garment with a gold-bordered sash, a thick rudraksha mala with a long gold-bead garland, a green bead necklace and gold pendant, gold armbands and bangles, and a red tilak on his forehead. His hair is tall and swept upward, with a decorative hairpin. One hand rests on his hip while he smiles.2015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13A man seated in a wooden armchair before a large dark-painted backdrop of a dancing deity figure, possibly Nataraja, with multi-armed iconography. He wears a saffron-orange shawl over bare shoulders, a heavy orange rudraksha mala, a long green bead mala, and ceremonial gold necklaces and bangles. He has long swept-back hair with a silver hair ornament, a yellow forehead band with a red bindi, and is raising one palm outward while the other hand rests on the chair arm, appearing to give a discourse or darshan. Appearance-based label: a person, seated in the speaker's chair during the event.2015-12-13December 13 20152015-12-13