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General Information About Item:

• Customary Lore, Children Hand Games
• Language:
• Country of Origin: Turkey
• Informant: Selin Capan
• Date Collected: May 9, 2019

Informant Data:

Selin is a turkish woman. She is 20 years old and grew up and lived in Turkey until she came to study in the US on September 2017. She speaks Turkish and English. She lived with her two parents and had no siblings.

Rules:

In this hand game, you increase the speed of the movements progressively until one person fails to do them.

Text:

This is a non-verbal game.

Contextual Data:

Selin learned this game at school where children would play it during recess, when they were bored, during class, waiting in line, etcetera. Children liked this game because it only required their hands, and therefore they could play it in all the previous settings and it was convenient. She would only play it at school, since she had no siblings or other children to play with. If someone was asked to play by two different kids at the same time (for instance, in the school bus), who the person would choose to play with would imply that they liked that person more than the other. The game can only be played between two people, so you have to make a choice of who to play with. Most children knew this game and it would only be played among children.

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Collector’s Name:

Catalina Garcia ’21

Tags/Keywords:

• Customary Folklore
• Children Hand Games
• [Name of the game]