gesture language

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 F. W. (Frederick Walker) Mott

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

This is no imputation against the missionaries, as in October, 1880, five intelligent Ojibwas from Petoskey, Mich., told the writer that they had never heard 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

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 R. J. Broadbent

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