Sister Greeting Handshake

• Informant info
  • Junior sorority member at Dartmouth College
• Type of lore (verbal, material or customary), Genre, Subgenre
  • Customary
• Language
  • English
• Country of Origin
  • United States
• Social / Cultural Context
  • This handshake is performed at meetings and often when sisters see each other around campus
• Informant’s comments
  • The handshake is very tough to describe. What we do is we interlock our two bottom fingers with a sister and it creates a K with the interlock fingers to represent our sorority. This has been a longstanding handshake for our sorority and each new member learns it when they accept their bid to the sorority
• Collector’s comments
  • The specific sorority is anonymous to in order to protect the sorority traditions and the informant identity