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Photograph of a ritual scene under a corrugated roof with red and white strings overhead. A man in the centre wears a brown dhoti-style cloth, a long brown rudraksha mala, and a white-and-red flower garland; his long dark hair is loose and he has a white forehead mark. He stretches both arms up to pull a white rope tied to a bundle of green mango leaves and straw atop a carved brown wooden kalasha-style vessel. Behind him, a second man in an orange cloth and gold-bead necklace stands near a rudraksha mala, and a third man in an orange garment with long hair stands at the right edge. The vessel is draped with white jasmine and red-and-yellow marigold garlands. Ritual activity is shown, with no visible audience.

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