The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol & its Migrations
Prehistoric Objects Associated With the Swastika, Found In both Hemispheres, and Believed to Have Passed by Migration
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27875-27880) from the valley
of Mexico, sent to the U. S. National Museum by the Mexican National Museum
in 1877. Fig. 358 also represents one of a series from Mexico, obtained
by W. W. Blake, July, 1886 (Cat. Nos. 99051-99059). The National Museum
possesses hundreds of these from Mexico, as well as the small ones from
Peru.
These specimens are chosen because they are the largest and most elaborately decorated. It will be perceived at a glance how the style of decoration lends itself to the Swastika. It consists mostly of geometric figures, chief of which is the Greek fret, the labyrinth, the circle, and the volute, but as in the color stamps (pp. 946-947) there is no Swastika.
Central America.
Nicaragua. --- The specimen shown in fig. 359, form Omotepe Island, Lake Nicaragua, in one of a series of pottery spindle-whorls, bearing, however, great resemblance to those of stone. Fig. 360 shows a specimen from the same locality. It is of pottery and bears much resem-