The swastika, the earliest known symbol, and its migrations; with observations on the migration of certain industries in prehistoric times

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...to cut it down in trenches, commencing on the northeast. Nothing was found until, in opening trench 3, about five feet above the base of the mound, they struck a mass of thin worked copper objects, laid flat one atop the other, in a rectangular space, say three by four feet square. These objects are unique in American prehistoric archaeology. Some of them bore a resemblance in form to the scalloped mica pieces found by Squier and Davis, and described by them in Fig. 242. ENtiBAVED SHELL. Triangular breech-clout with dots and circles. Entowah Mound, Georgia. Cat. No. 91443, U. S. N . M. 1 These explorations were made for the Department of Ethnology at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Plan Of Hopewell Mound, In Which Aboriginal Copper Swastikas Were Found. Ross County, Ohio. Moorehead, Primitive Man in Ohio, P1. xxxiv. their Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (p. 240), and also those of the same material found by Professor Putnam in the Turner group of mounds in the valley of the Little Miami. They had been apparently laid between two layers of bark, whether for preservation or mere convenience of deposit, can only be guessed. The following list of objects is given, to the end that the reader may see what was associated with these newly found copper Swastikas: Five Swastika crosses (fig. 244); a Ion g mass of copper covered with wood on one side and with squares and Fig. 243. five similar designs traceable on the re-verse; smaller mass of copper; eighteen single copper rings; a number of double copper rings, one set of three and one set of two; five pan lids or hat-shaped rings; ten circular disks with holes in center, represented in fig. 245, originally placed in a pile and now oxidized together; also l...