Skip to content
A smiling bearded man with long dark dreadlocks coiled high on his head sits before an ornate gold throne with intricate repoussé scrollwork. He wears a rust-red shawl draped over his shoulders and bare chest, with thick gold ceremonial chains around his neck, and a dark tilak mark on his forehead. A golden deity figure with an outstretched hand appears at the left edge of the frame. The swami-like appearance with distinctive dreadlocks, gold chains and rust-red wrap matches the candidate described on the page, so this is a person seated in person on the throne, smiling.