Rocky Mountain College MT

 
Michael Swanson
 
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Michael Swanson
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27 November 2006 14:54
 

Rocky Mountain College MT

Not sure if this is heraldic enough to be heraldry.

 

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Edward Wenzl
 
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27 November 2006 17:25
 

I went to the College’s homepage to find out more about the design. The College’s site does not say anything about how the design came about.  To me it looks like a Native American symbol or symboles on a shield shape.  But

I have virtually no knowledge of Native American symboles.

 
Donnchadh
 
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27 November 2006 17:42
 

Well, I see a cross, a stylized oracle’s flame (academic heraldry) and what looks like mountains flanking the oracle’s flame on the cross. But, I could be wrong.

 
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27 November 2006 18:20
 

Donnchadh wrote:

Well, I see a cross, a stylized oracle’s flame (academic heraldry) and what looks like mountains flanking the oracle’s flame on the cross. But, I could be wrong.


I see a torch rather than an oracular flame, but otherwise I agree.

 
Daniel C. Boyer
 
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01 March 2007 14:04
 

Edward Wenzl wrote:

I went to the College’s homepage to find out more about the design. The College’s site does not say anything about how the design came about.  To me it looks like a Native American symbol or symboles on a shield shape.  But

I have virtually no knowledge of Native American symboles.


I think it’s the particular artistic rendering rather than what it intrinsically is that might lead one to think this.  If one starts with a cross voided and cotised and torch, it might make more sense…

 
Patrick Williams
 
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01 March 2007 14:26
 

I’d agree that the use of tapering lines does give it a Pacific Northwest Indian look (which would be quite inappropriate for Montana), but I also think this falls more into the shield shaped logo camp than it does into the heraldic one. And I see a raindrop falling on a golf tee. wink

 
Joseph McMillan
 
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01 March 2007 14:47
 

It seems to me that the design derives directly from the quasi-armorial seal of Billings Polytechnic Institute, in the center of the row of seals below the shield—a torch enflamed between two pairs of mountains in the flanks.