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A photograph of a labourer squatting on bare ground, mixing material with a long-handled trowel and a small hand tool. He wears a checked short-sleeved shirt, khaki trousers and sandals, with a red mark on his forehead. Beside him sit a black plastic bucket, a green basin and a large heap of brown sand against a red-painted wall with green plants.2016-09-08September 08 20162016-09-08December 19 20092009-12-19June 26 20132013-06-26A worker in a grey long-sleeved shirt, grey jeans, a blue cap and grey shoes stoops over and uses a long-handled tool to work a heap of pale sand or cement on a concrete floor. Behind him stands a wall of grey concrete blocks with patchy light plaster. A second, smaller sand pile sits in the foreground, and a shovel lies at the lower left edge. The scene looks like a construction site, with no ritual objects, deities or other people visible.2010-01-27Outdoor construction work on a paved site with palm trees and a scaffold behind. Several labourers work around a large heap of grey wet cement or concrete mix spread on the ground, with torn cement bags nearby. A man in a red knit cap and checked shirt on the left, a man in a striped sweater and white turban on the right, and others in lungis and light shirts shovel and spread the mix with tools. Tall lamp posts and a blue barrel sit in the background. No ritual, discourse or a person presence is visible.2006-12-19A construction site outdoors where workers are mixing mortar on bare earth beside a small concrete structure. A man in a white shirt, grey trousers and a green head cloth pours cement from a blue woven sack onto a heap of reddish sand. Beside him a worker in a purple checked top, green lungi and white head wrap bends over the pile with gloved hands. On the right an older man in a cream shirt and blue-striped dhoti stands watching, and another person in an orange shirt stands further back. A black hose runs across the ground, and white buildings, trees and a red metal railing sit in the background. Stacked concrete blocks lean against a wooden frame at right.A construction site beside a building with a dark maroon door and open steel-framed structure. A young boy in a light shirt and dark shorts strikes a brick with a hammer on the ground. A man in a striped shirt stands waist-deep in a trench digging with a tool, while a shirtless man in a blue checked lungi and another man in a red striped shirt and dark trousers bend over stacked red bricks. A standing man in a white shirt watches. Red-brown earth, a motorcycle, piles of grey blocks and a terracotta bucket surround them. A white stamp-like mark is visible on the soil.2013-06-06January 27 20102010-01-27October 06 20062006-10-06Outdoor temple construction site under bright sky with palm trees. A man with long, swept-back dark hair wears an orange saffron robe, rudraksha mala around his neck, and works a long wooden tool into sand beside a shallow concrete-filled pit, a person (in-person candidate, distinctive long hair, saffron robe and rudraksha cues). To the right, a laborer in an orange head wrap, checked shirt and green lungi works alongside him. In the background, several people in white dhotis and shirts stand near an orange bucket, with more saffron-clad figures further back among scaffolding and tarps.2006-12-09A man in a pale blue-and-white checked shirt and light green trousers bends over a mound of sand at a red-earth construction site, digging with a long-handled shovel. Stacked grey sacks of cement or material sit behind him, and a wire fence with a few trees runs along the top of the frame. No ritual, deity or a person depiction is visible; the scene shows ground preparation and mixing work.