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Outdoor procession photographed from behind two onlookers: a woman with dark hair and a black beaded necklace on the left, and a man in a white shirt in the centre. In front of them, several deity murtis sit on decorated palanquins draped with dense garlands of yellow, red, green, orange and white flowers. Multicoloured fabric umbrellas with fringed edges shelter the figures, and a gilded canopy with a red interior stands at the right. A framed portrait of a standing man in saffron-toned robes, labelled on the sign or caption area only, sits at the right-hand palanquin. Trees and an overcast sky form the background.

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