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A photograph of people seated on a floor covered with a red and gold patterned rug, making clay Ganesha figures on white paper plates. A young person with short dark hair, bare-chested, wears a saffron-orange dhoti and a rudraksha mala, shaping clay with both hands. An older woman in white clothes and a rudraksha mala, seated at the upper right, works on a figure. Two more people in blue and pink and in teal sit at the edges. Clay figures, a plastic water bottle, a white bowl, cloths and a small tripod are visible in a wood-floored room with a sculpture at the left.
Photo 19 of 63 from 1 September 2019

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