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A photograph taken at night in a dirt-floored workspace where men are excavating a large pale white stone or plaster sculpture partly buried in sand. Two men in white shirts and lungi-style cloths kneel and dig, one using a shovel and the other a trowel, beside a large whitish head or torso-like form lying in the pit. Behind them a brick-lined pit or kiln structure stands, with other men in white dhotis and checked lungis standing in the background amid scattered bricks, rubble and sacks. No readable deity identity is clear from the visible sculpture, which is partly unfinished or buried. No a person candidate is visibly present in the scene.

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