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November 10 2006

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November 09 20062006-11-09A photograph of a wall in a room with a white-painted ceiling of wooden planks, hung with several painted portraits of bearded ascetic sages. On the left, a sage sits cross-legged on a low wooden platform with a mala beaded necklace and gold chain. The central portrait shows a bearded sage with a tall topknot, halo, rudraksha beads, a white sacred thread, orange lower garment and a palm raised in blessing while holding a book. On the far right, a sage with a halo sits astride a tiger in a mountain landscape, holding a golden object. Below the portraits in a small arch niche, a framed screen-like picture shows a man in red with raised hand beside a deity murti. Other small framed images hang nearby, and a partly visible person's head appears at the lower right edge.2012-05-24Year 1982-1986 Sri Kanniga Parameshwari SchoolA photograph of a whitewashed wall in a workshop or storeroom, hung with three framed photographs of bronze Nataraja statues, the dancing Shiva within a flaming ring of fire, each on a blue backdrop. A fourth framed photo shows a dark bronze figure of a deity playing a flute beside a cow or bull on a pedestal. Above them hang a wrought-iron wall ornament and a small framed clock. A cloth-clad arm is visible at the left edge and a few small brass figures appear at the bottom. No people are in focus in the scene, and no one is identified.2006-09-18August 09 20102010-08-09January 28 20102010-01-28August 03 20082008-08-03A dimly lit room in an old palace with white walls and dark wooden ceiling. Framed paintings hang on the walls, including one in an ornate gold frame at left and portraits in red-brown frames at center and right, set within glass display cases. A figure in a saffron-orange dhoti and shawl stands in a doorway, with another person partly visible behind. The floor is dark stone.2006-11-10A photograph of a long wall display of framed colourful deity photographs arranged in a grid of panels, showing ornately decorated murtis with flower garlands, crowns and bright clothing, with a tall temple gopuram visible in one corner panel. In the lower right corner a partly visible person in a checked shirt sits at the edge of the frame. The wall is pale cream and a wooden door frame is at the right edge.2010-08-09A photograph of a wall in an interior room with a row of framed printed portraits hung along a dark wooden rail. The framed pictures show standing and seated male figures in orange and saffron robes and turbans, plus a group scene at left. A partially visible man in the lower left corner wears an orange turban and dark-rimmed glasses. The pictured figures are printed portraits, not physical people in the room, and no individual is clearly identifiable as a specific person in the scene.2010-01-28February 05 20102010-02-05A photograph inside a small room with a green-tiled floor and cream walls covered in many gold-framed devotional prints and paintings of deities. In the centre, a woman in an orange sari with a white flower garland stands with her hands near her chest, facing the wall. Beside her, a figure with long dark hair wears a white kurta with an orange shawl and stands with his back to the camera. At left, a man in a pink shirt and white dhoti stands with palms pressed together beside a flaming oil lamp, and another person's hand holds a lamp near the edge of the frame. Brass lamps and small offerings sit on a low stand in the foreground.2010-02-18