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was no female in the area where I intended to work. As soon as I arrived
on the road and started down the path to the village, I would be greeted
by a shrill chorus of children, and would be met by one of these helpers,
who generally went ahead of me to look around comers before giving an
all-clear. I was not allowed to use a theodolite for fear that I would see
women through its telescope. The apparatus I could use was therefore
restricted to a tape measure and a bearing compass, which I hung on a
retractable dog line in order to establish the orientation of walls: the
measurements were only accurate within about 3°. Measurements of the
outside walls could be confirmed by triangulation from outlying rocks,
but within the village the available angles were too small and the walls
too irregular for this to be an effective control. Thus although I started
work at the beginning of May, what I could achieve was distinctly limit-
ed, and it was not until the villagers had largely left for the summer
quarters that I had any greater freedom of movement. As the harvesting
work intensified, I was asked to break off my work as it would embar-
rass the women: I obtained permission to continue until the end of June,
working mainly on the Old Fort above, where I would cause less distur-
bance. By then I had done all that I could to establish the plans of the
village itself and the Old Fort, and already had drafts of their layout. I
was to be allowed to recommence work once the villagers had migrated.
By this time the Panjabi interpreter was colluding with those villagers
who were not happy at my presence, in an effort to bring the work at
Sazm to an end.
This hiatus could be used to visit most of the other valleys in the region,
both to gain a general comparative view of the architecture, and to
record individual buildings where it seemed appropriate: the ISMEO
team had already been active recording the major mosques in recent
years, and there was of course no reason to duplicate their work. We
visited Harban, Thor, Palus (Guli-Bagh, Padar, Ghaziabad, Kawlai,
Batingi, Hunkot), Seo, Tangir (Jaglot, Koruge, Puruli, Kamikot), Darel
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on the road and started down the path to the village, I would be greeted
by a shrill chorus of children, and would be met by one of these helpers,
who generally went ahead of me to look around comers before giving an
all-clear. I was not allowed to use a theodolite for fear that I would see
women through its telescope. The apparatus I could use was therefore
restricted to a tape measure and a bearing compass, which I hung on a
retractable dog line in order to establish the orientation of walls: the
measurements were only accurate within about 3°. Measurements of the
outside walls could be confirmed by triangulation from outlying rocks,
but within the village the available angles were too small and the walls
too irregular for this to be an effective control. Thus although I started
work at the beginning of May, what I could achieve was distinctly limit-
ed, and it was not until the villagers had largely left for the summer
quarters that I had any greater freedom of movement. As the harvesting
work intensified, I was asked to break off my work as it would embar-
rass the women: I obtained permission to continue until the end of June,
working mainly on the Old Fort above, where I would cause less distur-
bance. By then I had done all that I could to establish the plans of the
village itself and the Old Fort, and already had drafts of their layout. I
was to be allowed to recommence work once the villagers had migrated.
By this time the Panjabi interpreter was colluding with those villagers
who were not happy at my presence, in an effort to bring the work at
Sazm to an end.
This hiatus could be used to visit most of the other valleys in the region,
both to gain a general comparative view of the architecture, and to
record individual buildings where it seemed appropriate: the ISMEO
team had already been active recording the major mosques in recent
years, and there was of course no reason to duplicate their work. We
visited Harban, Thor, Palus (Guli-Bagh, Padar, Ghaziabad, Kawlai,
Batingi, Hunkot), Seo, Tangir (Jaglot, Koruge, Puruli, Kamikot), Darel
106