The Swastika, the Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migration: With Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric TimesWilson, Thomas
Religion
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
6. Silver coin of Terone. Reverse. Incuse.
7. Coin of Bisaltæ.[316] Reverse. Flat incuse square.
Octadrachm.
8. Silver coin of Orrescii.[316] Reverse. Incuse square.
Octadrachm.
9. Corinthian silver coin. Reverse. Incuse square divided
into eight triangular compartments.
10. Silver coin of Abdera. Reverse. Incuse square.
11. Silver coin of Byzantium. Reverse. Incuse square,
granulated.
12. Silver coin of Thrasos (Thrace). Reverse. Incuse square.
10. Engraved Fulgur (?) shell resembling statue of Buddha. Toco
mound, Tennessee. Cat. No. 115560, U. S. N. M. 880
11. Plan of North Fork (Hopewell) Works, Ross County, Ohio.
_Smithsonian Contrib. to Knowledge_, I, pl. X 888
12. Plan of Hopewell mound, Ross County, Ohio, in which
aboriginal copper Swastikas were found. _Primitive Man in
Ohio_, pl. XXXIV 888
13. Human skull, with copper-covered horns, probably of elk.
Hopewell mound, Ross County, Ohio. _Primitive Man in Ohio_,
frontispiece 890
14. Altar, Hopewell mound, Ross County, Ohio. Found near the
copper Swastika shown in fig. 244. _Primitive Man in Ohio_,
fig. XXXVII. Cat. No. 148662, U. S. N. M. 890
15. Bead necklace and garters with Swastika ornamentation. Sac
Indians 894
16. Ceremonial bead garters with Swastikas. Sac Indians, Cook
County (Kansas) Reservation 896
17. "Navajo Mountain Chant." Dr. Washington Matthews. _Fifth
Ann. Rep. Bur. Ethnol._, 1883-84, pl. XVII 898
18. _Folium Vitus_ ("fig leaves")--terra-cotta covers,
"_tunga_," used by aborigines of Brazil. Cat. Nos. 59089
and 36542, U. S. N. M. 904
19. Various forms of crosses in use among North American
Indians, from Greek cross to Swastika. _Second Ann. Rep.
Bur. Ethnol._, 1880-81, pl. LIII 928
Fig. 1. Greek cross.
2. Greek cross.
3. Cross on copper.
4. Cross on shell.
5. Greek cross.
6. Greek cross.
7. Latin cross, copper.
8. Greek cross.
9. Latin cross, copper.
10. Swastika on shell.
11. Swastika on shell.
12. Swastika on pottery.
13. Swastika on pottery.
20. Palenque cross, foliated. _Smithsonian Contrib. to
Knowledge_, XXII, fig. 7, p. 33 932
21. Modern porcelain spindle-whorls. Southern France. Cat.
No. 169598, U. S. N. M. 968
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