1852, Allan Wolsey Cardinall, The Natives of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast: Their Customs, Religion and Folklore, London : G. Routledge, page 86:
Usually there are stones marked with crosses, even zwastika. ( I have just read in an article by Sir Ray Lankester that the zwastika is but a recent introduction in Africa. Throughout these parts, from Dagomba country northward[…]
1886, Vicountess Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford, Needlework as Art, page 318:
On the shoulder is once embroidered the mystic zwastika.2 2It is singular that we find the starry cross and the zwastika filling alternate spaces on the mantle of Achilles […]
2001, Sabine Maasen, Science Studies: Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge, page 195:
... also given the task of throwing out small javelins which stuck into the ice sheet below - this trick had been tested in the Alps. The metal arrows had small zwastikas in their tails, insignia to mark the nationality of the claim.
