Part 10 (1/2)

In Kla motion, and appears in the word _laesture for _madman_ and _fool_, in which the hand is rotated above and near the head

_Evening_, in Kla the tiesture for which, described elsewhere in this paper (see Natci's Narrative, page 503), is executive of the saiven for _eve, even_, ”the decline of the day” These Klaies have been kindly contributed by Mr AS Gatschet

The Very Rev E Jacker also coeticus_ upon the probable gestural origin of the Ojibord _tibishko_, ”opposite in space; just so; likewise:”

”The adverb _tibishko_ (or _dibishko_) is an offshoot of the root _tib_ (or _dib_), which in , as appears froe_, he measures; _dibowe_, he settles e_, he pays out; _dibakonige_, he judges; _dibabishkodjige_, he weighs; _diba, to a certain quantity of food; _dibissitchige_, he fulfills a pro clothes

”The original,of _tib_, however, must be supposed to have been more comprehensive, if ould explain other (apparent) derivatives, such as: _tibi_, 'I don't knohere, where to, where froe_, he is master or owner; _titibisse_, it rolls (as a ball), it turns (as a wheel); _dibaboweigan_, the cover of a kettle The notion ofdoes not very naturally enter into the ideas expressed by these terms

”The difficulty disappears if we assuinally the phonetic equivalent of a _gesture_ expressive of the notion of covering as well as of that ofof one hand above the other, horizontally, at some distance, palesture would ht, co one another horizontally' The idea of covering evidently enters into this conception The strange adverb _tibi_ ('I don't knohere,' &c, or 'in a place unknown to nify 'covered' In _titibisse_, or _didibisse_ (it rolls, it turns), the reduplication of the radical syllable indicates the repetition of the gesture, by holding the hands alternately above one another, pal a rotaryof the hands in a horizontal position, expressive of a proain, is frequently accompanied by the interjection _top!_ the salish _tap_, the French _tape_, the Greek, [Greek: tupto] the Sanscrit _tup_ and _tub_, &c”

GESTURES CONNECTED WITH THE ORIGIN OF WRITING

Though written characters are generally associated with speech, they are shown, by successful elyphs and by educated deaf-mutes to be representative of ideas without the intervention of sounds, and so also are the outlines of signs This will bethe most prominent feature, attribute, or function of an object are made, or supposed to be made, so as to leave a luminous track i it The actual result is an iraphic representation of visible objects and qualities which, invested with substance, has become familiar to us as the _rebus_, and also appears in the for”

Gesture language is, in fact, not only a picture language, but is actual writing, though dissolving and syarno aptly says: ”_Qui eniituitata expriit in Charta, Marmore, vel aere_”

It is neither necessary nor proper to enter now upon any prolonged account of the origin, of alphabetic writing There is, however, propriety, if not necessity, for the present writer, whenand under so special lines of research, to disclaiist, or even profoundly versed in Mexican antiquities His partial and recently coestions for the exaestions may safely be introduced by the state directly from the Romans, were obtained by them from the Greeks, and by the latter from the Phoenicians, whose alphabet was connected with that of the old Hebrew

It has also been of late the general opinion that the whole family of alphabets to which the Greek, Latin, Gothic, Runic, and others belong, appearing earlier in the Phoenician, Moabite, and Hebrew, had its beginning in the ideographic pictures of the Egyptians, afterwards used by theh in a differentto phonetic writing, is established by delineations still extant a them, called _ku-wan_, or ”ancient pictures,” hich some of the modern written characters can be identified The ancient Mexicans also, to some extent, developed phonetic expressions out of a very elaborate systeraphic pictures made by ancient peoples would be likely to contain representations of gesture signs, which subject is treated of below, it is proper to exans yptian, Chinese, and Aztec characters Only a few presumptive examples, selected frons of the North American Indians appear to be included, with the hope that further investigation by collaborators will establish ns

A typical sign ation_, is as follows: The hand extended or slightly curved is held in front of the body, a little to the right of the median line; it is then carried with a rapid sweep a foot or ht (_Mandan and Hidatsa_ I)

One for _none, nothing_, soiven: Throw both hands outward toward their respective sides from the breast (_Wyandot_ I)

With these coation_, Fig 118, taken froyptienne_, _Paris_, 1836, p 519

[Illustration: Fig 118]

No vivid fancy is needed to see the hands indicated at the extremities of arms extended symmetrically fro 119]

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119, found in Landa, _Relation des Choses de Yucatan_, _Paris_, 1864, 316 The Maya word for negation is ”_iven by Brasseur de Bourbourg in his dictionary, apparently having connection with this character, would in use separate the hands as illustrated, giving the san for _nothing, none_, made by the Coround, fingers pointing forward and doard Frequently the right hand is brushed over the left thus thrown out

[Illustration: Fig 120]

Co 120 This will not be recognized as a hand without study of si off the wrist Here the wrist bones follow under the cross cut, then theforward and doard

[Illustration: Fig 121]