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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    (amongst the peasantry) with their small gold money, of which they also make necklaces ; these latter are likewise sometimes of silver, in form somewhat resembling a collar^ being tight round the neck, with silver pen- dants huiig close around it. Their bracelets occasionally consist of three or four silv er chains affixed to a broad clasp, but are most commonly rings of coloured glass, of which they often wear two or three on each arm. Every finger is loaded with a multitude of rings of brass, lead, silver, and some few of gold, generally with coloured stones in them. A broad belt is worn around the waist, hanging very loose and as low as the hips : its materials