22nd-24th Aug. 1949.
{gl: Sakaltutan . 1st official visit}
Visit with Mdr. East of Talas, four and a half hours on foot, said to be 45 kilometres {gl: no about 33 on the 1955 road . True then by road via Kayseri?}
from
Kayseri, on road to Tomarza, near the Bucak boundary.
100 families, 615 population according to muhtar. (Mdr said 800, probably from memory).
Bus route (daily, but just now bus doesn't run for 10 days).{gl : I remember no buses 1949-52 from S. Mdr boasting?} Lorries pass, several a day e.g. 2 on
24th, ? would there be any more. Very bad road, but passable 9 months of the year.
Well made stone houses. Outside open-air not very privy.
Good water, in stone underground channel from a spring. Probably safe to drink, at least I
drank a lot of it
Village situated on east-facing slope of a bowl, called Sakaltutan because a man caught his beard
in a narrow pass on the road across the bowl from the village. {gl: a village joke. Found out years later that Sakaltutan is the name of tribe/ lineages
from Asia}
Harman {gl: threshing} in progress; every family has its own space on the floor. A small floor up the road from the village, a large one right above, and
another large one below to the left of the road.
Rye, barley, wheat (no oats), bostan, soan, kays. On the whole not much bace {gl garden} visible, and little shade. No irrigated land. Small school buildings
by the road - Eitmen, 45 pupils, {gl: no much less. See elsewhere}
3 years {gl: of schooling, one class}.
See Religion p.23
Muhtar's house - enter in the middle, room either side. (i(0039)'s house) {gl: 21/8/96. I am surprised - but probbaly true then. Became two dwelling after
i(0039) death?} Guest room painted decorations, divan
on 3 sides, fireplace, cushions and rugs, cushions for sitting on in the corners away from the door.
Position away from door is position of honour. Wash place and apparatus (waste-water bowl,
soap, pitcher) in the room. Opening glass wood-framed windows; two parrafin lamps, coffee
cups and tea glasses kept in the room on a high shelf. Saatli duvar takvimi {gl : wall calendar with prayer times} i(0462 Muhtar Ali) - wife, 2
daughters, about 10, son about 2, i(0039 day Ahmet) and his wife (tried four wives - no children, apparently has one wife now), who adopted i(0462 Ali) as his
son. i(0462 Ali) 's father killed in World War I.
Muhtar had hired young man and woman to work carrying straw to the house, para ile.
Man fed with us about 11 a.m. ( i (0170 Haci Ali Karaagac)).
Bedding - mattress, striped arsaf, yorgan; equally for the old man guest.
Food - Monday, first evening - good meal, including meat, for Mdr.
Tuesday, yogurt and bread and water for breakfast.
bread and honey, kaysi, karpuz. Coffee made on petrol stove.
Wednesday, Nothing till 11 a.m., then potatoes; later soup with macaroni, kaysi, karpuz,
bread.
Mosque - no minaret. No one called to prayer. Hoca son of Glveren hoca.
i(0181 Mustafa Karakaya). Bekci said he might be muhtar next time, 11 in household
His father, Mother and co-wife.
Himself, his wife and his 2 unmarried sisters
3 daughters and 1 son
Seemed to have plenty of time, wife from Sleymanli.
i(0317 Haci Yildiz) - the Bekci Mother and father dead
1 child, no siblings, no land, a house and 1 cow. Wife from Ard.
15 TL per month -300 TL a year. {gl: 1= 11, later 8TL. My salary 500 p.a. plus allowances}
i(0157 Zbeyr Ik) Older, noisy, house opposite Muhtar's with steps up to living level.
House adjoining said to be his brother's.
Brother of Mustafa, ? carpenter, of Mimarsinan, who had brought flour on a donkey, and left
them both.
Another man lived with 2 brothers, each having separate quarters in one building.
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