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Outdoor photo on sandy ground beside palm trees and a thatched hut. A group of about ten men in saffron and orange robes stands around carved stone or bronze-toned sculptural fragments lying on the dirt, including a large ornate limb-like piece with floral scrollwork and a smaller carved head at the left edge. A white-robed elder with glasses stands at the far left, and a bearded man in brown robes stands near the centre. In the centre-right, a tall young man with long swept-back hair, a red forehead mark, a long rudraksha mala and an orange shawl stands looking down at the fragments, flanked by a man in orange with gold ceremonial necklaces. People count is approximately ten.

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