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Outdoor festival scene at a temple site with palm trees and a white tent backdrop. Drummers and a horn player in white dhotis and maroon or brown shirts play drums and a long brass horn while a line of people stands and watches. A woman in a white sari with a red border stands at left beside a woman in an orange sari. A sign reads Sri Nanjundeshwar Temple with a portrait. Colourful rangoli decorates the ground and national flags fly along the poles.

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A street procession moves along a narrow village road lined with trees and low buildings. Several drummers in dark or brown shirts and white dhotis carry double-headed drums, one playing a drum hung from a strap. A long red cloth banner with embroidered animal and symbol motifs is carried on poles, with more orange and red banners and ceremonial umbrellas behind it. Men in white shirts and white dhotis walk alongside, and a man in a white shirt plays a long wind instrument. Orange pennant bunting is strung across the street. Some people are close to the camera, and others walk further back in the procession. The scene is daylight with a hazy, sunlit street.

December 23 2009

A street-level photograph of a procession at an ashram-style compound with orange and yellow walls and a tiled roof. In the foreground, two drummers in white shirts and white dhotis wear red and maroon shawls over their shoulders and beat large barrel drums, one with a red cloth wrap and gold trim. Behind them, a man in a yellow-and-gold shirt plays a long wind instrument, and a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a brass horn. Several men in white dhotis and white shirts walk through a red iron gate, and two ornate multicoloured umbrellas are raised over the crowd. A man in white holds a camera, and a wall poster shows a saffron-robed figure. A satellite dish sits on the roof above.

January 06 2013

July 28 2008

2008-07-28 +1 copies

Outdoor procession on a dirt path before a green gate, with colourful striped umbrellas overhead. Several drummers play large drums with sticks: a shirtless man in a yellow and green cloth, a man in orange with a red sash, and a man in a plaid shirt with an ID badge. Behind them, a man in white with a saffron/orange shawl and beard stands beside a long trident and a peacock-feather fan, with other people in white and orange nearby. A white kolam lotus design is drawn on the ground. Green-leaved bananas hang at the top of the frame.

A procession with ceremonial musicians and attendants in Thiruvannamalai. In the foreground a man in a yellow shirt and white dhoti plays a long brass horn (natheswaram-style wind instrument). Beside him a man with white forehead paste and red bindi plays a similar horn, wearing a yellow top and orange cloth. In the centre a man in a white shirt and white dhoti plays a large barrel drum (thavil) with gold-trimmed straps. Behind them an orange and yellow ornate ceremonial standard with a red emblem is carried, and a young man at right in orange dhoti, bare chest, rudraksha and gold necklaces holds a gold-tipped pole of a large fringed canopy. Several attendants wear white or orange cloth with white sacred ash marks. The scene is an outdoor temple procession with palm trees and a painted deity banner at left.