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A street procession under a canopy of green banana leaves and hanging green banana bunches, with red and orange festival cloth overhead. A man in a reddish-brown shawl and a long garland of white and red flowers raises one hand in blessing while walking among a crowd. Beside him a woman in a white sari carries a brass pot topped with coconut, mango leaves and flowers. Two men in white shirts and dhotis carry a drum with gold-painted frame and red cloth covering. Onlookers fill the background. The man with the garland is an appearance-based candidate for a person given his garland and reddish-brown shawl, but identity is uncertain.

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