IDNO

DG.144918.SHP

Description

"The village headmen and six men and two women came to a party we gave in the Rest House and we served tea, biscuits, cheroots and rum punch.
Samada. 19 August '38."

Place

S Asia; Tibet; Samada

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

Shepheard, Ken

Collector / Expedition

Date

19 August 1938

Collection Name

Shepheard Collection

Source

Shepheard Rogers, Patricia

Format

Album Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Related Archive: Noted in Shepheard's diary 'Some Notes of Ken Shepheard on his expedition to Lhasa, Tibet, in September - October 1938' p.22,
"19 August 1938
The two headsmen and 6 others and 2 women accepted our invitation and arrived about 0745 hrs. Much tea was drunk and 1 1/2 tins of biscuits and some raisins eaten. Cheeroots were very popular but caused lots of coughing and I was afraid one man was going under.
The pièce de resistance was a hot punch -- 1/2 bot. rum, 1/2 bot Kia Ora Lemon, lots of (5 tablespoons) brown sugar and 2 pints yak milk -- all hotted up together. The milk curdled but the result was excellent and was drunk with many loud smackings of lips.
Then into the open to look through field glasses and telescope. I don’t think any of them saw any result except by looking through the blunt ends which was a great success -- so was “Twister” with the anna trick but he was too stiff for much jumping. We then presented the headman with an electric torch and a riding switch and the women with an egg whisk and a red bottled unbreakable screw-top powder bowl. The whole party then formed a group and Man Bahadur -- who had acted as interpreter clicked the camera.
Farewells and away to Kangmar 14 miles down the valley.
Oh -- for canoes or a punt; but would we have got round the corners and crashed at the various bridges? Dry stone piers usually on grassy banks and stone slab and timber pathways -- arches often narrow and seldom more than 3’ head room.
Sent a birthday cable home from Kangmar by telephone to Gyantse at 1700 hrs.
Khan Gul ill. Temp 99.5. Pulse 120º, Gave him 10 grains of quinine.
Chowkidar says river only a trickle in dry weather (now some 5,000,000 galls./hr ?), but always some water." [JD 26/01/2020]