Dejhoor
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thumb|Jawaharlal Nehru as a young boy and his mother Swarup Rani wearing dejhoorDejhoor (or Deji-Hor) is a dangling ear ornament worn by Kashmiri Pandits women, from the eve of their wedding onwards.
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thumb|Jawaharlal Nehru as a young boy and his mother Swarup Rani wearing dejhoorDejhoor (or Deji-Hor) is a dangling ear ornament worn by Kashmiri Pandits women, from the eve of their wedding onwards.
The jewelry is placed in the cartilage piercing of the ear in a red thread and later the thread may be replaced with a gold chain known as an ath bought by her in-laws at their house. The thread or chain is about 8-12 inches. The bottom part athur, which will be of gold, gold /silver threads or pearls, is attached to the dejhoor. The ornament is not worn by Kashmiri Muslims or those from any other Hindu community. thumb|Kashmiri Pandit lady in 1900
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dejhoor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.