History of the Parish And Church of Saint Michael, Charleston
History of the Parish And Church of Saint Michael, Charleston
Kershaw, John, 1847-1921. [from Old Catalog]
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If picture writing be only a commemoration of gesture language, we have in the various monuments covered with such signs an ample field for investigation. Wilhelm Von Humboldt says that : '* In fact, gesture destitute of sound is a species of writing ;" there is certainly, as the author observes, a very close connection ; and it is certainly very singular that the natives of America should be as great proficients in one as the other. lliese pictures are substantially the same among very differe...nt tribes and races, and suggest the meaning by some characteristic strongly marked in each figure or emblem. Those of the American Indians, as far as we can gather from the instances given, are more of the nature of illustrations of poetry than composing anything of the nature of a language ; that there would be a family likeness between the paintings or scratchings of savages we should expect, as all rude imitations of the common phenomena of life would be somewhat alike, and would resemble the drawings of children : an instance is, however, given on the authority of Mr.
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