Question regarding face direction symbols

[Stuart Thiessen]

Hi, Valerie! I am doing some work on my MA research and was looking  
at the face direction symbols. I noticed that there are essentially 3  
versions of face direction symbols.

1)
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  and 
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  seem to be the most common directions and so this seems to be a  
shortcut version?

2) There are more specific version looking like this:
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  where the symbol above the head represents the angle and position  
of the nose? I assume this is used when you don't wish to use a stick  
figure but need to express the face direction and it doesn't fit the  
two general cases listed above?

3) There seems to be an additional version of this with just the symbol
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  which I assume is used when/if you want to do it as more of a stick  
figure approach? For these symbols, I assume the head symbol is  
placed on top of the neck line?

Am I on the right track of understanding the intent of these symbols?

Also, I noticed that in the IMWA, the version of symbols like this:
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  and the version of symbols like this: 
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  are actually listed twice.  Could I ask why that is?

Thanks,

Stuart
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