The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric TimesWilson, Thomas
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The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times
Wilson, Thomas
Industries, Primitive; Swastikas; Symbolism
Cross and Crux ansata, p. 128.
---- Mayapan and Maya Inscriptions.
_Proc. Am. Antiq. Soc._, Worcester, Mass., April 21, 1881.
Also printed as a separate. See pp. 15, 17, and figs. 7, 13, and
frontispiece.
LITTRÉ'S FRENCH DICTIONARY. Title, Svastika.
McADAMS, WILLIAM. Records | of | Ancient Races | in the | Mississippi
Valley; | Being an account of some of the Pictographs, sculptured |
hieroglyphics, symbolic devices, emblems, and tra- | ditions of the
prehistoric races of America, with | some suggestions as to their origin.
| With cuts and views illustrating over three hundred objects | and
symbolic devices. | By Wm. McAdams, | Author of * | * | * | * | * | St.
Louis: | C. R. Barns Publishing Co. | 1887.
4º, pp. i-xii, 1-120.
Mound vessels with painted symbols, sun symbols, cross symbols, cross
with bent arms (Swastika), etc., Chap. XV, pp. 62-68.
Cites Lord Kinsborough, "Antiquities of Mexico," for certain forms of
the cross, of which the first is the Swastika and the third the
Nandavartaya Chap. xvii, pp. 62-68.
MACRICHIE, DAVID. Ancient | and | Modern Britons: | A Retrospect. |
London: | Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., | 1 Paternoster Square. | 1884.
Two vols., 8º. (1), pp. i-viii, 1-401; (2), i-viii, 1-449.
Sculptured stones of Scotland (p. 115), the Newton stone, a compound
of Oriental and western languages (pp. 117-118). Ethnologic
resemblances between old and new world peoples considered. Vol. II
(app.).
MALLERY, GARRICK. Picture writing of the American Indians.
_Tenth Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology_, 1888-89, pp. 1-807, pls. I-LIV,
figs. 1-1290.
Sun and star symbols, figs. 1118-1129, pp. 694-697. Human form (cross)
symbols, figs. 1164-1173, pp. 705-709. Cross symbols, figs. 1225-1234,
pp. 724-730. Piaroa color stamps, fret pattern, fig. 982, p. 621.
MARCH, H. COLLEY. The Fylfot and the Futhore Tir.
Cited in _Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian
Society_, 1886.
MASSON, ----. [The Swastika found on large rock near Karachi.]
_Balochistan_, Vol. IV, p. 8, cited in Ogam Monuments, by Brash, p.
189.
MATÉRIAUX pour l'Histoire Primitive et Naturelle de l'Homme. Revue
mensuelle illustrée. (Fondée par M. G. De Mortillet, 1865 à 1868.) Dirigée
par M. Émile Cartailhac. * * *
Swastika, Vol. XVI, 1881.
Prehistoric Cemeteries in Caucasus, by E. Chantre, pp. 154-166.
Excavations at Cyprus, by General di Cesnola, p. 416.
Signification of the Swastika, by M. Girard de Reale, p. 548.
Swastika, Vol. XVIII, 1884.
Étude sur quelques Nécropoles Halstattiennes de l'Autriche et de
l'Italie. By Ernest Chantre, Swastika on Archaic Vase, fig. 5, p. 8.
Croix Gammée, figs. 12 and 13, p. 14. Cross, p. 122. Swastika, pp.
137-139. Swastika sculpté sur pierre, Briteros, Portugal, fig. 133, p.
294.
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