Brief Memoirs of Colonel Garrick Mallery Usa Who Died October 24 1894
Brief Memoirs of Colonel Garrick Mallery Usa Who Died October 24 1894
Robert Fletcher
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Events have already justified his wise foresight. Before Colonel Mallery began his researches it was, perhaps, generally supposed that the rude picto- graphs of the Indians, some of which were believed to be of pre-Columbian time, were unmeaning and half-childish de- vices. He was gradually convinced that gesture-speech and the cognate pictographs formed a complete system, involv- ing mythology and history and having an important rela- tion to spoken language. The Bureau of Ethnology was organi...zed in 1874, and some time after the director, Major J. W. Powell, invited Colonel Mallery to pursue his investigations in connection with that institution. The first result was the publication, in 1880, of a pamphlet of 72 pages, with 33 figures, entitled GARRIOK MALLERY. 7 " Introduction to the Study of Sign-language among the North American Indians as Illustrating the Gesture-speech of Mankind. " This was intended rather as a manual for students, and in the same year followed a quarto volume of 329 pages, "A Collection of Gesture Signs and Signals of the North American Indians, with some comparisons.
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