View sign 'deer'

deer

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Description

Indicate horns with both hands, backs to left and right, fingers and thumb extended and spread, held above sides of head.


References: deer (black-tailed), deer (red), deer (white-tailed)

Notes

These are Tomkins position 5 hands.

Clark does not have a specific sign for deer, but instead lists separate signs for white-tailed, black-tailed, and red deer. Although he says that the sign for horns is frequently made prior to making the signs for them.