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SECRETS OF EARTH AND SEA 



found in use among the Indians of Kansas and other 

 tribes — as a device in pottery, in bead-work (Fig. 46), 



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Fig. 43 {&is). — Swastika in bronze repousse, from the necropolis of Koban, 

 Caucasus (after Chantre " Le Caucase"), about 500 B.C. 



Fig. 44. — Silver-plated bronze horse- 

 gear from Scandinavia, showing two 

 swastikas, and below a complex 

 elaboration of a swastika. (Bronze 

 Age, about 1500 B.C.) 



Fig. 45. — Anglo-Saxon urn from 

 Shropham, Norfolk, orna- 

 mented by twenty small hand- 

 made swastikas stamped into 

 the clay. (British Museum.) 



patch-work, quill-embroidery, and other decorative fabrics. 

 The Indians called Sacs, Kickapoos, and Pottawottamies, 



