Khevsureti

Above all things they are male: upstanding, intolerant and independent, their muscles hardened by marching, hunting and carrying of loads, everything about them is virile or rugged and they have an imposing arresting carriage that comes of conscious courage and unquestioned liberty. Odette Keun, a French traveler, clearly very taken with Khevsur men, in her book, In the Land of the Golden Fleece, 1924.