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Forms Allied to the Swastika


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the other lines of the design. In some specimens they are so deeply cut as to penetrate the disk, producing crescent-shaped perforations. Two medium-sized perforations for suspension have been made near the inner margin of one of the bosses next the dotted zone; these show abrasion by the cord of suspension. These perforations, as well as the three near the center, have been bored mainly from the convex side of the disk.
      Fig. 268 (1) represents a well-preserved disk with four volute arms forming the tetraskelion, and thus allied to the Swastika. The volutes (to the right) are deeply cut and for about one-third their length penetrate the shell, producing four crescent-shaped perforations which show on the opposite side. This specimen is from a stone grave near Nashville, Tenn., and the original is in the Peabody Museum. Fig. 269 (2) shows a specimen from the Brakebill mound, near Knoxville, Tenn. it has a dot in the center, with a circle five-eighths of an inch in diameter. There are four volute arms which start from the opposite sides of


ENDNOTES:
1. Second Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology, 1880-81, pl. 55, fig. 1 [Back]

2. Ibid., pl. 55, fig. 2. Back



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