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Night photo of a ritual at a copper-clad flagstaff beside a white plinth with palm fronds behind. A shaved-headed man in orange robes stands on the plinth pulling a white cloth or rope up the copper pole. Beside him a person in orange wears a red-and-orange garland and is adjusting a cloth at another man's neck, who wears orange and looks upward. A seated figure in white and another in orange are at the lower right edge. Gilded figures decorate the pole's shrine niches, and a small pink flower hangs in the air.

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