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Close-up photograph of a smiling man with a large, voluminous dark braided topknot wrapped high on his head, with a broad white vertical tilak mark on his forehead. He wears red-and-gold beaded earrings and a gold-toned ornate necklace at the bottom edge. Behind him are a silver repoussé-metal panel with floral scrollwork and a leafy tree trunk. a person: the topknot, white forehead marking and ceremonial ornaments match the appearance cues for a person, shown here as a person in portrait view.