Transcriber's note:

In the Bibliography section the reader will encounter numerous vertical bars or "pipes" ( | ). These were present in the original book. The reason for their presence is uncertain.

Mismatched/unmatched quotation marks are as in the original.

 


SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.
UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

 

 

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
.

 

 

From the Report of the U. S. National Museum for 1894, pages 757-1011,
with plates 1-25 and Figures 1-374.

 

 

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
1896.

 

 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

 Page.
Preface763
 
I.Definitions, Description, and Origin.
Different forms of the cross765
Names and definitions of the Swastika768
Symbolism and interpretation770
Origin and habitat791
 
II.Dispersion of the Swastika.
Extreme Orient799
Japan799
Korea799
China799
Tibet802
India802
Classical Orient806
Babylonia, Assyria, Chaldea, and Persia806
Phenicia807
Lycaonia807
Armenia807
...

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