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A festival procession in an outdoor courtyard with red and blue decorated umbrellas overhead. A musician in white blows a long brass horn at left. Center right, a performer in a black face mask with a tall carved headdress, gold staff and a rich garland of orange and red flowers stands beside a woman in a purple sari. At left, a figure in orange and red with long black hair and a large flaming red headdress raises orange arms. Several men in white with gold and flower garlands and a bearded person with a rudraksha-style garland stand among onlookers, and a man in white and a grey-haired spectator watch at bottom. Tall bamboo and leaf decorations hang in the background.

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