Indian man and woman celebrating Pongal, the major new year festival of the Tamils of Southern India. They pray to the sun while making offerings on a palm leaf and burning incense. Indiennes faisant Pongol. Copperplate engraving by Jean-Baptiste Marie Poisson after an illustration by Pierre Sonnerat from his Voyage aux Indes Orientales et à la Chine (Voyage to the East Indies and China, Dentu, Paris, 1806.

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