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Close photograph of a brass tray holding a pile of flat, dried brown cow-dung cakes with ridged, wavy surfaces, set on a grey stone floor beside a red and purple cloth. No people are visible.

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August 31 20172017-08-31August 31 20172017-08-31A woven bamboo basket filled with dark, dried, irregular chunks of herbal or plant material, possibly dung-based or compressed herbal cakes, resting on a striped red, yellow, green and blue textile with a blue cloth below. Thin sticks lie in another basket at the top left. No people are visible.2017-02-21A photograph of a Siddha-style purification process: flat cow-dung cakes are stacked in a conical mound around a dark metal vessel containing glowing red embers and burning cowdung, with smoke rising above. Pink flowers and a yellow cloth lie on the ground at right, and a person in a rust-red garment sits partly visible at the upper left. No face or identifiable ritual figure is clearly shown, and no a person candidate is visible in this frame.2017-08-31Close-up photograph of a plastered mud wall covered with rows of dried cow-dung cakes pressed flat by hand, each showing ridged finger-pressed patterns, with a few straw strands and a small green leaf visible. No people, deities or ritual objects are shown.2008-06-09August 31 20172017-08-31A photograph of a woven bamboo basket filled with flat, crumbly brownish-green discs of dried herbal or plant material, resting on a colourful striped cloth of red, pink, green, yellow and blue. Additional bamboo sticks and a woven basket are partly visible at the top left. No people are visible in the frame.2017-02-21August 31 20172017-08-31 +1 copiesA woven bamboo basket holds a heap of dried, flattened brown cakes or chunks, possibly dried herbal or ritual material, resting on a striped red, green and blue cloth. Thin dried sticks lie in another basket in the upper left corner. No people are visible; the scene is a close-up of prepared ritual ingredients laid out on a textile.2017-02-21August 31 20172017-08-31 +1 copiesAugust 31 20172017-08-31 +1 copiesA photograph of a Siddha purification process: a flat-bottomed metal vessel on a stone block holds glowing red embers beneath stacked dark cowdung cakes, with smoke rising. Behind it a wooden platform is dotted with red flower petals and a silver tray sits at the right edge. Blurred figures in rust-orange clothing are at the top left and top right, with hands visible at the top right; no faces are clearly shown. The scene depicts a homa-style fire with cowdung smoke used for purifying preparations.2017-08-31