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Kayhan Irani and Jehangir Irani



DESCRIPTION
In this slideshow, you will see:
Kayhan Irani and her brother, Jehangir Irani, at their Navjote ceremony on July 4, 1985 at the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York Darbe Meher, New Rochelle, NY. In her oral history interview, Kayhan described her memories of her navjote, remembering family members that visited from India and sharing some rituals that commonly occur in the Zoroastrian initiation ceremony.

Kayhan and her brother in the park across their apartment in PS 220 playground, Queens, New York in 1982 or 1983. In her oral history interview, Kayhan and her parents describe memories Queens in the 1990s.

ADDITIONAL METADATA
Date: 1982 to July 4, 1985
Subject(s): Kayhan Irani
Type: Photograph
Source: Archival Creators Fellowship Program
Creator: Sharmeen Mehri
Contributor: Kayhan Irani
Location: Flushing, New York

PROVENANCE
Collection: Sharmeen Mehri Fellowship Project
Donor: Kayhan Irani
Item History: 2022-07-13 (created); 2022-07-19 (modified)

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