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Nepal's cultural pride: Shikali festival
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A medium performs a traditional mask dance during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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A medium performs a traditional mask dance during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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A medium performs a traditional mask dance during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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A medium is seen without his mask on before he performs a traditional mask dance during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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Priests take a break during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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A medium is seen without his mask on before he performs a traditional mask dance during the Shikali festival in Lalitpur. Mediums wearing colourful clay masks participate in dances and people offer sacrificed animals and prayers in hope of gaining blessing from the deities during the Shikali festival. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar
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