Handshapes of a Korean Signer

[Jason Hopkins]

I'm taking SIL classes at the University of North Dakota for the summer.  I had a project to gather and document a word list from a native signer from South Korea.  My team ran across two handshapes we cannot find.



The first you can make the shape by extending all your fingers on one hand, then draw the tips together to form a circle, but don't touch.  It is like holding a golf ball with your just your finger tips while keeping the fingers extended, but flexed at the proximal Knuckle.



The other is like having your hand cupped with these adjustments: the thumb is spread from the palm, the pinky is fully flexed with it's tip touching the palm, the ring is a bit lest flexed, the middle even less, and the index is hooked but not extended.  If you pretend you are holding a stop watch you'll probably have it.


Any suggestions as to what hand shape to use?  What other info do you need?  

-Jason




       
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