Defense Partner Handshake
Title: Defense Partners
General Information about Item:
- Customary Lore, Gestures
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Informant: Hailey Noronha
- Date Collected: 2-22-18
Informant Data:
- Hailey Noronha was born in a town right outside Toronto, Ontario in November,1996. She is a senior at Dartmouth College on the Women’s Varsity Ice Hockey Team. Hailey was the captain on the team this past year and is a sociology major at Dartmouth. She started playing hockey when she was about three years old because of her older brother and dad who played.
Contextual Data:
- Cultural Context: When explaining this folklore, Hailey was smiling the whole time and appreciated the bond it created with a girl on the team two years younger than her. They originally started doing this about the first or second game of Hailey’s junior year and Bailee’s freshmen year.
- Social Context: After on-ice warm-ups before the game, the team comes back into the locker room. During this time coach gives a pre-game speech and then leaves. At this time, the team stands up and a lot of people have pre-game rituals and handshakes with other girls on the team. Hailey and Bailee, a sophomore defenseman on the team, perform their handshake at this time.
Item:
- Bailee Brekke, a current sophomore on the team, and Hailey perform a handshake before going on the ice for the start of the game. Once coach leaves the locker room, Hailey and Bailee find each other and do a high five, then low five, and finally grab hands and bring them to the sky. They then back down low and are ready for the game.
Transcript:
- “I can’t stop smiling thinking about our handshake–It puts me in the right mindset before the start of the game!”
Collector’s Name: Sarah Tabeek
Tags/Keywords:
- Customary Lore
- Gesture
- Defense Partner Handshake