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

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)

He delivered his story, referring to one of the many incidents in his perilous life, orally, but with pantomimes so graphic and vivid that it may be presented truly as a specimen of gesture language.

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

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.

Take any part in any play, strip from it in its enactment the whole of its gesture language, could we realise that the actor appearing in it was portraying nature for us?

From A History of Pantomime by Broadbent, R. J.