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GD35

Just as in GD29 (stylized leg) we for practical reasons must limit the amount of glyphs, by links referring to those GD where it seems normal to find arms. References have therefore been given to GD15, GD17, GD52, GD56, GD63, and GD72. Examples: Aa3-40, Aa2-25, Aa3-12, Aa7-30, Aa3-76 and Ab7-12:

A hyperlink is also inserted to GD41, but the reason is another. It seems as if there may be some difficulty in drawing a sharp line between GD41 and GD35, as seen in e.g. Aa1-74:

The long fingerlike feature in Aa1-74 maybe really are meant to show long fingers at the end of a peculiar arm, but this problem - how to define GD41 - is pushed forward by me to resolve at GD41 instead of here at GD35.

Analyzing the GD35 glyphs we immediately find two main categories: hands with thumbs, e.g. Ab4-35, Ab6-56, Ab5-62, Ab5-74, and Ab6-6:

           

respectively glyphs without thumb (and with fingers pointing towards the mouth), or at left as in Aa8-43:

Most of the glyphs without thumb and with fingers pointing towards the mouth are found not here at GD35 but at those GD:s to which links are given, e.g. Aa1-71 (GD15), Aa1-58 (GD17) and Ab6-24 (GD52):

     

Exceptionally it happens that the thumbless hand is oriented in the opposite direction, as in Ab4-12 (GD52) and Ab8-28:

  

A composition with thumbless hand at left with another hand at right occurs too, as seen in Aa2-31, Aa3-16 (GD15) and Ab8-50 (GD56):

     

Hand with thumb has a wide range of orientations, not only the usual right and away from the central figure, but also upwards, e.g. Aa2-73, Aa3-40 and Aa7-75:

     

The thumb may also be turned inwards, Aa1-86, or with the whole hand more or less also oriented inwards, as in Ab6-38 and Aa1-48:

     

The thumb may be converted into a 'nut' (or similar), Aa3-64 and Aa6-27:

 

It also happens that other fingers are transformed, e.g. Ab8-83 and Ab8-30

  

That the non-attached finger in Ab8-83 is not a 'misprint' becomes clear after having seen a similar phenomenon in the toes of Bb6-9:

The thumb may point more or less straight forward, for instance in Aa5-30 and Ab2-3:

  

The arm may be downwards oriented, e.g. Aa2-69, Aa5-77 and Ab6-40:

     

Perhaps the above covers the main variations. Though, of course also the arm may show diverse special characteristics. In addition to what has been seen above, it may also be swollen, e.g. as in Ab2-48 and Ab8-73:

  

As to combinations with other GD:s we have examples like Aa2-81, Aa3-3, Aa8-14, Aa8-30, Ab4-8 and (probably) the left part of Ab8-67:

              

GD73 often has arm and hand. Instead of referring by a hyperlink to that GD I have, however, chosen to list such glyphs also under GD35, e.g. A2-13:

 

Aruku Kurenga (B)

Examples of GD73 with arm and hand are seen in for instance Bb12-12 and Bb12-20:

  

What looks like swollen arms is seen in Bb12-18 and Bb4-40:

  

Downward oriented hands are found also in e.g. Ba6-26 and Bb5-23:

  

 

Mamari (C)

Thumb converted into 'nut' we find in for instance Ca10-10, Ca11-17 and Ca12-3:

      

 

Échancrée (D)

Da6-105 and Db2-106 show unusual positions of hands (without thumbs):

  

 

Keiti (E)

Eab5-21 has two hands, one of which is a head metamorphosed:

Eb4-17 has hands looking like wings:

In Ea9-25 and Eb1-26 focus seems to be how the hand is open:

  

Ea8-1 has a curious long arm with thumb drawn out extremely long:

Eb1-14 and Eb1-16 exhibit another unusual variant:

  

 

The rest of the texts

The texts above have been used as a kind of 'test ground' to see if the definitions could be used.

For the rest of the texts the same principles have been used, although less stringently. The experiences gained have been relied upon rather than what is written above about what characterizes the glyph type.

There may be a few extra glyph added, which would not have been so with a strict application of the written definitions. On the other hand there has been no attempt to ignore glyphs which according to the written definitions ought to belong to the glyph type.