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Lelo Burti

Also known as field ball

Illustration pattern only. No free-licence photograph yet: can you suggest one?

Village-vs-village full-contact ball game across a field to a stream; heritage in Gurian communities.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Georgia.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Persia, Caucasus and Central Asia.

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