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Close overhead photo of a large engraved silver-coloured metal basin filled with a pale grey powder or paste. A bare hand with a gold bangle and a red thread wrist band holds a long engraved silver tool or ladle pressed into the powder. Another hand with a gold bangle and part of a maroon or brown sari edge are visible at the top and right. Ornate floral engraving decorates the basin rim, and smoke rises at the left edge. This is a sacred herbal preparation process, with no identifiable person's face shown.

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Close overhead view of a ritual preparation in a large ornate silver vessel, with a pair of hands lifting or lowering a silver lid-shaped dish into the metal pot. Two hands are visible: one wearing a gold bangle and one with a red thread bracelet on the wrist, the second wearing a reddish-brown garment at the edge. Around the vessel sit smaller silver and brass bowls holding dark liquid and offerings, with a thin curl of smoke rising from one bowl at left and a small cup of dark liquid. Silver chased with floral patterns is visible at the top right. The scene suggests a sacred aushada preparation process at an ashram.2017-08-29October 16 20162016-10-16November 11 20162016-11-11Close photo of a large ornate silver vessel being handled during ritual abhishekam. Two hands, one at the upper left and one at the right, grip the rim of a polished silver lid or plate with engraved floral and scroll borders, lifting it over a deeply embossed silver bowl decorated with lotus-like motifs and foliage scrolls. Inside the bowl a pale liquid or pale offering is visible. Blurred orange cloth appears at the left edge. No faces are visible and no one is identifiable. The scene is a temple-style ritual setting with metal ritual vessels.2016-10-16August 29 20172017-08-29A photograph of an aushada preparation ritual. A silver-rimmed bowl filled with yellow powder and dark herbal material is held above a large ornate silver vessel releasing steam. Partially visible hands and a person in orange and maroon cloth with gold bangles and a gold waist band are at the edges. A silver tray and a small brass dish with green leaves sit nearby on the floor. The setting is a concrete floor with a silver-framed shelf in the background.2017-08-29Close photo of hands working over a large polished silver tray filled with white granular powder. A person in the foreground wears a dark red-maroon sacred thread bracelet and has orange-painted fingernails, scooping the powder with the other hand. Another person in orange-saffron robes is partly visible at the top, and a second tray with white powder sits at the lower right edge.2016-10-16November 11 20162016-11-11November 11 20162016-11-11Close-up photograph of hands in a ritual offering: a person's hand dusted with white powder sprinkles or takes powder from a round polished silver tray, while another hand in a red-and-white thread bracelet rests on the tray's rim. In the background, orange-robed sannyasis are seated, and a second tray in the lower right holds a pale powder beside red offerings. The scene suggests an abhishekam or puja preparation with powdered offerings such as sandal or vibhuti. No face is visible, so no individual can be identified.2016-10-16Close-up photo of a person's hands in the foreground holding a large scalloped silver bowl heaped with white powder. Dust particles fly from the bowl. Orange-robed figures are blurred in the background at top, and a second silver vessel with white and red powder sits at lower right. No faces are visible.2016-10-16October 16 20162016-10-16