Palestine Exploration Fund - Quarterly Statement for 1894/Note on the Swastica
NOTE ON THE SWASTICA.
By Rev. Prof. T. F. Wright, Ph.D.
In the very interesting papers by Herr von Schick and Major Conder in the Quarterly Statement for July the swastica is figured on pp. 187 and 206, with brief comments. The form is—
It may not be unimportant, as indicating the wide extension of this primitive type, to say that numbers of them were found in excavating for the Columbian Exposition the Hopewell Mound, in Ohio, U.S.A. In this mound more copper was found than had been obtained from all previously explored mounds, also silver, mica, sharks' teeth, quartz, crystals, and obsidian. The copper had apparently been hammered cold and cut by stone chisels to various forms, prominent among which is the swastica in many sizes, very neatly done. The same has been found in Mexico and Peru. Americans can as yet offer no explanation of this connection between Troy and our aborigines.