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Three men work on a large brown clay or plaster sculpture lying on a sandy ground outside a building with orange walls and a maroon door. A young man in a white t-shirt leans over the sculpture's torso with his hands, a second man in a white t-shirt and grey lungi stands bent over behind it, and a third man in white shirt and dhoti sits on the right beside a stone mortar and tools. The sculpture appears to be an unfinished figure being shaped or coated, with a wooden bowl and stone tools on the ground nearby.

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Outdoors on a sandy courtyard in front of an orange-painted wall, several men work on a large dark brown statue lying on its side on a workbench. Three men stand or crouch around it in white shirts and lungis or dhotis, one in a white shirt and grey dhoti, another in a white shirt with a grey lungi. A seated man in white shirt and white dhoti at right holds a tool and polishes or carves the statue. A stone mortar and pestle and a grey plastic water cooler sit nearby. The statue shows a multi-limbed figure, possibly a deity murti, being sculpted or restored.2013-07-05July 05 20132013-07-05A man in a white short-sleeved shirt and white dhoti leans over a reclining wooden figure lying on a dark workbench, carving or finishing its face with a small tool. The figure is a dark-brown wooden sculpture of a reclining human form with bare legs and feet. Two carving knives with yellow handles lie on the table, a small white paper cup sits nearby, and a black chair stands against a pale concrete wall with a striped cloth hanging above. Wood shavings are scattered on the floor.2013-07-04July 05 20132013-07-05A young man in a white short-sleeved t-shirt and white dhoti with green borders sits on the ground in a open shed with corrugated metal walls, carving a large brown clay or wood figure of a reclining body lying on a wooden board. He wears an orange thread on his wrist and works with a small chisel-like tool, surrounded by wood shavings, a tin bucket, bricks and scattered tools. The scene shows a sculptor at work on a deity murti in progress.2013-06-30June 23 20132013-06-23July 01 20132013-07-01A photograph of artisans sculpting a clay figure of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity, in a plain whitewashed workshop. The unfinished murti is brown-tan, with an elephant trunk and four arms holding a rod and a rounded object. A bare-chested man in a white vest sits at the right, a man in a checked red-and-white shirt leans in from the lower left and works on the base with his hands, and a third man in a white shirt and pink lungi stands behind the murti shaping its body. Clay tools and wet clay lie on a wooden table.2013-06-23July 14 20132013-07-14Three men work on a clay or plaster sculpture in a rough corrugated-metal shed with cardboard and debris around them. The man on the left in a grey shirt and orange shorts presses his hands into a large sculpted torso lying on a sack. A younger man in a white shirt and green-and-gold cloth sits behind, bent over the piece. On the right, an older man in a striped blue shirt and maroon lungi smooths a copper-coloured sheet draped across the work. Blue plastic drum and scattered packaging sit at the edges.2013-06-23Two men in plain white shirts and white dhotis sit at a wooden table in an open-sided brick shed, working on a large wooden figure lying across the table. The older man in front, with a red thread on his wrist and an ID badge, holds the carving with both hands while the younger man behind him works with a chisel-like tool. Smoke rises from the table, and wood shavings, a black bowl of ash, a blue bucket and an open book sit nearby.2006-11-20Two men in white clothes sit at a rough wooden workbench under a shelter with a wire-mesh roof, working on a large brown clay or wooden sculpted form lying on the table. The man in front wears a white shirt and white dhoti, with a red thread on his wrist, and works with both hands on the piece. Behind him a second man in white leans in. A framed black-and-white portrait of a man with a turban and tilak hangs on the wall, garlanded with multicoloured beaded flower garlands. The table also holds a blue bucket, a metal dish with dark ash, bundles of wood, and scattered pieces of plant material and cloth. The portrait's man is depicted on a wall, not physically present.2006-11-20