Part 55 (1/1)

[Illustration: L--Thue outward]

FIG 342a

[Illustration: M--Forefinger horizontal, fingers and thumb closed, palm outward]

[Illustration: N--First and second fingers straight upward and separated, reers and thumb closed, palm outward]

[Illustration: O--Thuht upward, ree outward]

[Illustration: P--Fingers and thumb partially curved upward and separated, knuckles outward]

[Illustration: Q--Fingers and thuhtly curved, doard]

[Illustration: R--Fingers and thuht, separated, upward]

[Illustration: S--Hand and fingers upright, joined, back outward]

[Illustration: T--Hand and fingers upright, joined, palm outward]

[Illustration: U--Fingers collected to a point, thu in middle]

[Illustration: V--Arched, joined, thuer, doard]

[Illustration: W--Hand horizontal, flat, palm doard]

[Illustration: X--Hand horizontal, flat, palm upward]

[Illustration: Y--Naturally relaxed, normal; used when hand simply follows arm with no intentional disposition]

FIG 342b

NOTE CONCERNING THE FOREGOING TYPES

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 hand relative to the body, which must be shown by the outlines (see OUTLINES OF ARM POSITIONS) or description The right and left hands are figured above without discriht hand will be understood when the left is not specified The hands as figured can also with proper inties either upward, doard, 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 exactly corresponds with a sign observed, modifications may beof it, found most convenient, as indicated in the EXAMPLES, and referred to by the letter of the alphabet under the type changed, with the addition of a nued a second tie would necessarily be drawn on another sheet of types or another tracing of a type selected when there are no sheets provided), it should be referred to as A 2