The mirror of gesture : being the Abhinaya darpana of Nandikeśvara
The Mirror of Gesture is a 1917 study of Indian dance gesture, the Abhinaya darpana attributed to Nandikeśvara, published in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University Press for scholars and dancers. Its plates show Indian sculpture, bronze figures and hand positions, drawn and photographed for close comparison. A designer might take from them the stylised, legible vocabulary of hand and body poses, with the outlined single-hand drawings useful for simple gesture icons.
