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Close-up photo of a wooden trough or tray filled with smooth grey-green wet clay or paste. A person's forearm and hand, reddish-brown skin with some white powder, are plunged into the mixture, stirring or kneading it. Brownish flecks and wood-grained edges frame the container. No faces or ritual setting are visible.

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A photograph of a wooden mould or frame filled with wet grey clay or mud, lying on reddish-brown earth. A bare arm and hand, with dried pale clay on the forearm, press into the surface to shape it. The frame has pale paper or cardboard lining and blue marks on its wooden edge.2011-09-20Close-up photograph of a wooden trough or vessel filled with a thick, pale grey-green paste, possibly a clay, mud or ritual mixture, with glistening droplets and flecks of reddish-brown material along its edges. No people are visible; the frame shows only the container and its contents against a pale, textured surface.2011-09-20September 20 20112011-09-20September 20 20112011-09-20Close overhead photograph of a flat square stone grinding slab with a dark cylindrical stone pestle standing upright in its centre. Around the pestle is a thick reddish-brown paste, possibly sandalwood or herbal paste, smeared across the stone surface with white residue specks. Coarse burlap sacking with green and red edges lies beneath the slab. No people are visible.2006-12-22December 22 20062006-12-22Close-up photograph of a person's hands shaping a lump of wet grey clay on a pale floor. The hands hold and mould a mound of mud into a rounded form with a smaller raised knob, glistening with water. The person wears a teal blue silky garment with a gold-thread border. Only the hands and lap are visible, so no face or full body appears.2010-10-01A man in a white short-sleeved shirt and grey trousers crouches at a wall, smoothing wet plaster or mortar with a wooden trowel from a shallow metal basin. The wall surface is brown and grey, with a damp, glossy sheen. This is a construction work scene with no visible a person candidate.2010-01-27Close photograph of a person's hands shaping a large mass of reddish-brown clay. The fingers press and smooth the wet clay, which has a rough, layered texture. Behind it, two pale wooden poles stand upright against a plain light grey wall. Only the forearms and hands of one person are visible, with no face shown. +1 copiesNovember 09 20162016-11-09 +1 copiesNovember 11 20162016-11-11 +1 copiesA dim, close-up photograph of wet, brown muddy material filling a dark underground channel or pipe, with dark metal ring-shaped edges and rusty iron rods in the foreground. Damp earth walls surround the opening and there are no people visible in the frame.2013-09-13