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| Title | The Swastika: The Earliest Known Symbol, and Its Migrations : with Observations on the Migration of Certain Industries in Prehistoric Times United States National museum. Report |
| Author | Thomas Wilson |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 255 pages |
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