TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.
Preface[763]
[I.]—Definitions, Description, and Origin.
Different forms of the cross[765]
Names and definitions of the Swastika[768]
Symbolism and interpretation[770]
Origin and habitat[791]
[II.]—Dispersion of the Swastika.
Extreme Orient[799]
Japan[799]
Korea[799]
China[799]
Tibet[802]
India[802]
Classical Orient[806]
Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia[806]
Phenicia[807]
Lycaonia[807]
Armenia[807]
Caucasus[808]
Asia Minor—Troy (Hissarlik)[809]
First and Second Cities[810]
The Third or Burnt City[811]
The Fourth City[813]
The Fifth City[818]
The Sixth and Seventh Cities[819]
Leaden idol of Hissarlik[829]
Owl-shaped vases[830]
The age of Trojan cities[832]
Africa[833]
Egypt[833]
Naukratis[834]
Coptos (Achmim-Panopolis)[834]
Algeria[838]
Ashantee[838]
Classical Occident—Mediterranean[839]
Greece, Cyprus, Rhodes, Melos, and Thera[839]
Greek fret and Egyptian meander not the same as the Swastika[839]
Swastika in panels[845]
Swastikas with four arms crossing at right angles, ends bent to the right[846]
Swastikas with four arms crossing at right angles, ends bent to the left[847]
Swastikas with four arms crossing at other than right angles, the ends ogee and to the left[848]
Meander pattern, with ends bent to the right and left[849]
Swastikas of different kinds on the same object[849]
Europe[854]
Bronze age[854]
Etruria and Italy[855]
Swiss lake dwellings[861]
Germany and Austria[862]
Belgium[863]
Scandinavia[864]
Scotland and Ireland[867]
Gallo-Roman period[869]
France[869]
Anglo-Saxon period[870]
Britain[870]
Swastika on ancient coins[871]
Triskelion, Lycia[871]
Triskelion, Sicily[873]
Triskelion, Isle of Man[874]
Punch marks on Corinthian coins mistaken for Swastikas[875]
Swastika on ancient Hindu coins[877]
Swastika on coins in Mesembria and Gaza[878]
Swastika on Danish gold bracteates[878]
United States of America[879]
Pre-Columbian times[879]
Fains Island and Toco mounds, Tennessee[879]
Hopewell Mound, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio[888]
Mounds in Arkansas[893]
North American Indians[894]
Kansas[894]
Sacs[895]
Pueblos[896]
Navajoes[897]
Pimas[901]
Colonial patchwork[901]
Central America[902]
Nicaragua[902]
Yucatan[902]
Costa Rica[903]
South America[903]
Brazil[903]
Paraguay[905]
[III.]—Forms Allied To the Swastika.
Meanders, ogees, and spirals, bent to the left as well as to the right[905]
Aboriginal American engravings and paintings[906]
Designs on shell[906]
Ivory-billed woodpecker[907]
The triskele, triskelion, or triquetrum[908]
The spider[913]
The rattlesnake[914]
The human face and form[914]
Designs on pottery[920]
Designs on basketry[924]
[IV.]—The Cross Among the American Indians.
Different forms[926]
The cross on objects of shell and copper[926]
The cross on pottery[931]
Symbolic meanings of the cross[933]
The four winds[934]
Sun and star symbols[936]
Dwellings[936]
Dragon fly (Susbeca)[936]
Midēᐟ, or Shamans[937]
Flocks of birds[937]
Human forms[938]
Maidenhood[939]
Shaman’s spirit[939]
Divers significations[939]
Introduction of the cross into America[944]
Decorative forms not of the cross, but allied to the Swastika[946]
Color stamps from Mexico and Venezuela[946]
[V.]—Significance of the Swastika.[948]
[VI.]—The Migration of Symbols.
Migration of the Swastika[952]
Migration of classic symbols[960]
The sacred tree of the Assyrians[960]
The sacred cone of Mesopotamia[960]
The Crux ansata, the key of life[961]
The winged globe[961]
The caduceus[962]
The trisula[963]
The double-headed eagle on the escutcheon of Austria and Russia[963]
The lion rampant of Belgium[963]
Greek art and architecture[964]
The Greek fret[965]
[VII.]—Prehistoric Objects Associated with the Swastika, found inBoth
Hemispheres, and Believed to have passed by Migration.
Spindle whorls[966]
Europe[967]
Switzerland—Lake dwellings[967]
Italy[968]
Wurtemburg[968]
France[968]
North America—pre-Columbian times[969]
Mexico[970]
Central America[971]
Nicaragua[971]
South America[972]
Chiriqui[972]
Colombia[972]
Peru[972]
Bobbins[975]
Europe[975]
United States[975]
[VIII.]—Similar Prehistoric Arts, Industries, and Implements inEurope and
America as Evidence of the Migration of Culture.		[977]
Conclusion[981]
Bibliography[984]
List of Illustrations[997]

THE SWASTIKA,

THE EARLIEST KNOWN SYMBOL, AND ITS MIGRATIONS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE
MIGRATION OF CERTAIN INDUSTRIES IN PREHISTORIC TIMES.

By Thomas Wilson,
Curator, Department of Prehistoric Anthropology, U. S. National Museum.