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Outdoor scene on a sandy ground beside palm trees and a white stepped structure with a tall golden-tipped spire. Several devotees sit cross-legged in rows before shallow pits filled with grey ash and smouldering embers, with thin smoke rising. In the foreground a young woman in an orange shawl over white clothes sits calmly with hands folded. Nearby a man in white clothes sweeps ash with a broom, and women in white and yellow garments and orange shawls sit in the background. A white pigeon stands in the foreground. Such pits and smoke suggest a fire ritual, but the scene does not establish a named event.

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