50 The seventeenth to nineteenth century sources with extensive bibliography are available in Grigolia's important article, "Milkrelationship", op. cit. Grigolia, p. 149 citing E. Taibout de Marigny, Three Voyages in the Black Sea to the Coast of Circassia (London, 1837) pp. 56-57, 122.

51 Grigolia, p. 150 citing J.A. Longworth, A Year among the Circassians, vol. 2 (London, 1840), p. 285.

52 Grigolia, pp. 152-55.

53 Grigolia, p. 157.

54 Grigolia, pp. 157-58, based on the study by A. Khakhanov, "Linturali: rytsarskoe sluzhenie dame v Svanetii (Linturali: Knightly Service to a Lady in Svanetia)", Etnograficheskoe Obozrenie, vol. 1 (Moscow, 1889) p. 138.

55 For example, the Armenian journals Azgagrakan Handes [Ethnographic Review] (Tiflis, 1895-1916) and Ararat (Etchmiadzin, 1868-1919).

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