gesture language

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Raffaelle was equally particular in his exhibition of gesture language, even unto the minutest detail of the arrangement of the fingers.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

Many arguments have been advanced to prove that gesture language preceded articulate speech and formed the earliest attempt at communication, resulting from the interacting subjective and objective conditions to which primitive man was exposed.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

Primitive man depended largely upon gesture language, and the placing of the hand over the heart is universally understood to signify love and fidelity.

From The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song by Mott, F. W. (Frederick Walker)

Ercole only answered by raising his head and throwing out his chin, which means "no" in gesture language.

From Whosoever Shall Offend by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Since these arts were originally derived from gesture language, it is not strange that gesture and pantomime are the best means of preparing the child for these modes of communication.

From The Tree-Dwellers by Brown, Howard V.