. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 74. HISTORY OF GESTURE SPEECH MODERN USE. 293 readers in the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 1875. In thatvaluable serial, conducted by Prof. E. A. Pay, of the ^National Deaf. Fig. 75. Mate College at Washington, and now in its twenty-sixth volume, alarge amount of the current literature on the subject indicated by itstitle can be found. MODERN USE OF GESTURE SPEECH. Dr. Tylor says (Early History of Mankind, 44): We cannot lay downas a rule that gesticulation decreases as civiliz
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 74. HISTORY OF GESTURE SPEECH MODERN USE. 293 readers in the American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, 1875. In thatvaluable serial, conducted by Prof. E. A. Pay, of the ^National Deaf. Fig. 75. Mate College at Washington, and now in its twenty-sixth volume, alarge amount of the current literature on the subject indicated by itstitle can be found. MODERN USE OF GESTURE SPEECH. Dr. Tylor says (Early History of Mankind, 44): We cannot lay downas a rule that gesticulation decreases as civilization advances, and say,for instance, that a Southern Frenchman, because his talk is illustratedwith gestures as a book with pictures, is less civilized than a Germanor Englishman. This is true, and yet it is almost impossible for per-sons not accustomed to gestures to observe them without associatingthe idea of low culture. Thus in Mr. Darwins summing up of thosecharacteristics of the natives of Tierra del Fuego, which rendered itdifficult to believe them to be fellow-creatures, he classes their violentgestures with their filthy and greasy skins, discordant voices, aud hide-ous faces bedaubed with paint. This description is quoted by the Dukeof Argyle in his Unity of Nature in appr
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