A dancer in a painted animal mask and brightly coloured clothes dances at the Trashigang festival, tsechu. These dancers represent animal spirits and are are enacting part of a long story. Masked clowns sit on the ground tending their dead colleague who is being judged by the spirits. Trashigang Dzong, Trashigang, Bhutan, Druk Yul. 19 November 2007

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A dancer in a painted animal mask and brightly coloured clothes dances at the Trashigang festival, tsechu. These dancers represent animal spirits and are are enacting part of a long story. Masked clowns sit on the ground tending their dead colleague who is being judged by the spirits. Trashigang Dzong, Trashigang, Bhutan, Druk Yul. 19 November 2007

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