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A photograph of a craftsman sitting cross-legged on a concrete floor in a cluttered outdoor workshop, working on a dark grey stone Nandi bull sculpture. He wears a checked short-sleeved shirt, pink dhoti-style cloth, glasses and a wristwatch, and is smoothing the statue with a tool while a bowl of grey material sits beside him. Behind him, a second Nandi with a decorated headdress and a bowl of blue plastic sacks, jerrycans and other debris are visible. The setting resembles a sculptor's yard with woven mats and scattered tools.

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A man sits cross-legged on the ground sculpting a grey clay Nandi bull. He wears wire-rimmed glasses, a checked short-sleeved shirt, a pink dhoti with a gold border, and a small red tilak on his forehead. He holds a tool in his right hand while working on the bull's face and neck, which is decorated with a bead garland. Behind him are blue tarpaulins, plastic jerrycans, a red bucket in front, and unfinished figures on pedestals. A pale red wall is visible.2006-12-19A middle-aged man with grey hair and wire-rimmed glasses sits on the ground working on a dark clay Nandi bull sculpture in front of him. He wears a blue-and-white checked short-sleeved shirt and has a red tilak mark on his forehead. Behind him stands a pale grey stone Nandi bull decorated with a floral saddle cloth and a bead necklace, with a red plastic bucket, cardboard boxes and straw in the background. Sunlight falls across the workshop floor.2006-12-19A photograph of an older man with grey hair and glasses sits cross-legged on a floor in a courtyard, carefully working on a grey clay nandi bull sculpture with a small tool. He wears a checked short-sleeved shirt, a pink dhoti with a yellow border, and a red-orange tilak on his forehead. The nandi is seated with a beaded collar and a flower-patterned saddle cloth. Behind him stand two unfinished grey clay shiva-linga-style figures on pedestals, a red bucket sits at his side, and plastic drums, blue tarpaulin and straw are piled against a pink wall.2006-12-19A photograph of a sculptor at work on a clay statue of a seated bull, the figure grey with unfinished surfaces. The man in the foreground wears wire-rimmed glasses, has grey hair, and a checked short-sleeved shirt; he holds a tool over a metal bowl. Behind the bull, a partly modelled figure sits on a brick and wood pedestal, with sacks and a plastic water bottle nearby on a dusty ground under shade.2006-12-19A close photograph of an unpainted grey stone Nandi bull statue in the foreground, with a carved forehead band, a flower-like mark between the horns, and a beaded garland hanging at its neck. Behind it, a seated older man in a light shirt and dark trousers works on a sculpture in an outdoor yard, beside other partly carved bull and deity murti figures and a terracotta-coloured wall. No visible person is a person candidate; the seated man is an artisan. The statues are unpainted stone or clay forms, not finished murtis.2006-12-19December 19 20062006-12-19December 06 20092009-12-06Close-up photograph of a grey stone Nandi bull sculpture, head lowered toward the camera, with a carved forehead band and central medallion, a beaded necklace of carved bead strands along the neck, and round eyes and flared ears. The blurred background shows a red-orange wall, other figures and a few stone statues, with what appears to be a person in dark clothing at left. No physical people are clearly visible in the foreground.2006-12-19A workshop photograph showing a large pale wooden bull statue, a nandi-style figure with red-tipped horns and an ornamented saddle band, being worked on by a man in a white vest and maroon dhoti who touches its head. In the foreground a man in a white shirt and white dhoti sits on the floor working near the statue's base, with an older man in a checked shirt beside him. Behind them are racks of brass lamps, a gilded chair and metal stands, and to the right a grey stone bust of a man with a shaved head sits on the floor. The yellow walls and corrugated roof frame the scene.2015-04-28June 23 20132013-06-23A man in a white shirt and white dhoti sits on a mat in an open workshop shaping a dark cast figure of a seated bull with a wooden tool. The bull rests on a small wooden plinth on a blue tarp, with wax or clay pieces and leather-like sheets nearby. Metal rods and tongs hang on a cinder-block wall behind him, and a blue bucket and sacks sit in the background. The scene shows sculpture casting work in progress, consistent with metal casting at a sacred arts workshop.2006-12-10 +1 copiesMaking Of Sacred Arts University