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A man dressed as a monkey, or bahrupiya, impersonates the monkey god Hanuman in the India program at the 1985 Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall. (Daphne Shuttleworth/Smithsonian)

A man dressed as a monkey, or bahrupiya, impersonates the monkey god Hanuman in the India program at the 1985 Festival of American Folklife on the National Mall. (Daphne Shuttleworth/Smithsonian)