Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness.

  • Holderness, Mary.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Notes relating to the manners and customs of the Crim Tatars; written during a four years' residence among that people. With plates / By Mary Holderness. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    at the cost of ten or twenty roubles^ if negociated by the way of exchange. Poor Tatars^ like Jacoby serve an apprenticeship for their wives^ and are then admitted as part of the family. The Tatars of the Crimea may be divided into three classes : the Mur- zaS;, or noblemen ; the Mullas^ or priests ; and the peasantry ; the latter paying great deference to both the former. The Mulla is considered the head of every parish^ and nothing of consequence to the community is undertaken without his counsel. His land is ploughed for him^ his corn