gesture language

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 Garrick Mallery

In gesture language, the gesture has to remain fairly imitative or expressive to be intelligible.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Irwin Edman

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 Howard V. Brown

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

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

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 Garrick Mallery