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Show TYPES OF HAND POSITIONS IN GESTURE- LANGUAGE. 71 Q- Fingers and thumb scp- R- Fingers and thnmb ex- S- Hand and fingers upright, T- Hand and fingers upright, arated, slightly curved, tended straight, sepa- joined, back outward. joined, palm outward, downward. rated, upward. ^ E- Hand horizontal, flat, palm Y- Naturally relaxed, normal; upward. used when hand simply follows arm with no intentional disposition. N. B.- The positions are given as they appear to an observer facing the gesturer, and are designed to show the relations of the fingers to the hand rather than the positions of the baud relative to the body, which must be shown by the outlines ( see sheet of " OUTLINES OF ARM POSITIONS") or description. The right and left hands are figured above without discrimination, but in description or reference the right hand will be understood when the left is not specified. The hands as figured can also with proper intimation be applied with changes either upward, downward, or inclined to either side, so long as the relative positions of the fingers are retained, and when in that respect no one of the types exactlj' corresponds with a sign observed, modifications will be made by pen or pencil on that one of the types found most convenient, as indicated in the sheet of " EXAMPLES," and referred to by the letter of the alphabet under the type changed, with the addition of a numeral- e. g., A1, and if that type, i. e. A, were changed a second time by the observer ( which change would necessarily be drawn on another sheet of types), it should be referred to as A 2. |