Scottish Clan

The traditional company Scottish functions on the mode of the Clan . The membership of a clan is announced by the patronymic name and the particular colors of the Tartan, i.e. the reason which one finds on the Kilt. However this method of identification is relatively recent and would go back to the XVIIIe century. Before this period tartans were generally manufactured with the dyeing resulting from plants pushing locally, several members of different clans could carry similar tartans very well. The membership of a specific clan was then shown by the port of a bit of plant fixed on the cover-chief (Tam O' to sing: beret, or Glengarry: stone-block)) and which was the plant fetish of the clan. There exists also another means of identification: a badge (crest badge) carrying the armorial bearings of the clan, also hung to the cover-chief.

Principal clans

Anderson
Boyd
Cameron
Campbell
Chisholm
Davidson (Mac Dhai)
Douglas
Fraser
Gordon
Grant
Lamont
Leslie
MacAlister
MacDonald
MacDuff
MacFarlane
MacGregor
MacKay
MacKenzie
MacKinnon
MacKintosh
MacLean
MacLeod
MacNab
MacNeil
MacPherson
MacRae
Menzies
Munro
Murray
Robertson
Sinclair
Stewart/Stuart
Wallace

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