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A colourful sand or chalk rangoli-style drawing on a grey concrete wall below an orange painted band. On the left, a flowering plant in a pink and yellow patterned pot, with red and blue petals and green leaves. On the right, a blue house with a green roof, a yellow door, a purple base, and white smoke rising from a chimney into white clouds. Faint white outlines and a few stray paint splatters are visible. No people are visible in the scene.

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A photograph of colourful chalk or pastel flower drawings on a pale grey concrete surface edged with an orange-red border. Two large flowers dominate: the left bloom has purple, magenta, green, yellow, orange and blue petals with purple scalloped outlines, and a smaller flower to the right has purple, green, red and yellow petals. Pink and red smudges run across the surface and a pink paper cup sits at the right edge beside brown earth. No people or deity forms are visible.2010-12-12A photograph of colourful chalk and powder drawings on a dusty concrete floor. A large chalk-outlined figure with a smiling face, red eyes, a yellow nose and an orange and blue mouth is drawn at upper right, with orange and pink colour fills. At left, a round chalk outline is filled with purple, blue, yellow and green powder, beside a small pink cup holding purple powder. Scattered chalk pieces lie nearby. No people are visible.2012-05-02Colourful rangoli floor art being made on a red brick-paved courtyard. Chalk-white outlines are filled with bright powder colours in magenta, purple, lime green, yellow, red and blue, forming geometric diamond and petal patterns. Large multicoloured petal flower design at upper right with a yellow filled panel. Small paint pots of magenta, purple, blue and green sit on the ground. Hands and bare feet of participants are visible at the edges, some in black clothing, one person sitting cross-legged at lower right, while others work at the top. No faces are shown and no identifiable a person appearance is visible.2012-07-15A photograph of a ground-level white chalk line drawing on a brown earthen floor, partly filled with mounds of bright pink and magenta powder. The outlines include a lotus-like or lamp motif at the bottom and a stylized figure or structure in the upper right. No people are visible.2012-05-02November 05 20132013-11-05A photograph of a chalk kolam drawn on bare grey ground. The design is a symmetrical floral motif with a central orange four-petalled flower with a small magenta centre, surrounded by a purple ring and green inner shapes. Blue and green arrow-like leaves and curling green, blue and purple tendrils extend outward, outlined in white chalk. At the top edge, the feet and lower clothing of a person in a white and striped sari-like garment are visible, and at the upper left a dark patterned garment and bare feet appear partly in frame. These partial figures are the only people visible.2006-12-31Close overhead photo of a rangoli being drawn on a concrete floor. A bare foot is at top left and a hand with fingers spread reaches toward the design. White chalk outlines a large flower with scalloped petals and a central circle, with radiating lines. Green powder fills some petals, and small paper cups of coloured powder sit at the top and bottom edges. No faces are visible, and no one can be identified.2012-05-02May 26 20132013-05-26 +1 copiesNovember 23 20162016-11-23May 02 20122012-05-02A close overhead photo of a hand sprinkling blue powder into a floor rangoli-style design drawn in white chalk outlines and filled with red and orange powder. A small cup of blue powder sits at the lower left and a cup of red powder at the upper right on a concrete floor. Only a forearm and hand are visible, so no full person is shown.2012-05-02Close overhead photo of a hand pressing red powder into a white chalk-outlined rangoli design on a concrete floor. Only a child's hand is visible, fingers spread over the red and pink powder, with a small bowl of red powder at upper right. Scattered powder covers the floor around the pattern.2012-05-02