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Viktor Rydberg's Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II : Part 2: Germanic Mythology

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The Swastika

Prehistoric Objects Associated With the Swastika, Found In both Hemispheres, and Believed to Have Passed by Migration

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Bobbins.

Europe.
We have already seen how an increase in the number of correspondences between objects from distant countries increases the weight of their evidence in fig. 367

favor of contact or communication between the peoples. If it should be found upon comparison that the bobbins on which thread is to be wound, as well as the spindle-whorls with which it is made, had been in use during prehistoric times in the two hemispheres, it would add to the evidence of contact or communication. The U. S. National Museum possesses a series of these bobbins, as they are believed to have been, running from large to small, comprising about one dozen specimens from Italy, one form Corneto and the others from Bologna, in which places many prehistoric spindle whorls have been found (figs. 367 and 368). These fig. 368

are of type Villanova. The end as well as the side view is represented. The former is one of the largest, the latter of middle size, with others smaller forming a graduating series. The latter is engraved on the end by dotted incisions in three parallel lines arranged in the form of the Swastika on its end (fig. 193). (1) It was found by Count Gozzadini and forms part of his collection in Bologna.

United States.
The three following figures represent clay and stone bobbins, all from the State of Kentucky. Fig. 369 shows a bobbin elaborately decorated, from a mound near Maysville, Ky. It has a hole drilled longi-

ENDNOTES:

1. De Mortillet, "Musée Préhistorique," fig. 1239. [Back]

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