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Outdoor covered pavilion with a blue tarpaulin roof and bamboo-style poles hung with small red and orange flags, used for a food offering. About twenty people in white clothes with orange shawls sit in two long rows on the concrete floor, with plates of food, banana leaves and small brass cups set in front of them, in a ritual setting. Behind them, a larger group in white dhotis and kurtas stands with folded hands along the back wall. A film camera operator and a standing fan are at the right edge, and stacked red bricks are at the left. A man in white with a grey beard stands near the back at the right, and a seated figure in orange at the left foreground sits before a blue cloth with food offerings.

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