Archive for September 2, 2007

Lodge 270: Possible Early Leather Neckerchief Slide

Posted in SR-5 Lodges, Skyuka 270 by John E. Pannell on September 2nd, 2007 at 11:06 pm

This was with the group of images Brad Hutto sent me a few days ago.  It’s an early hand-painted leather that he says has been in a box since the 1970s.  He adds that it was probably used as a neckerchief slide.  The design is the lodge’s totem, the double headed thunderbird, painted onto leather.

If this really was a neckechief slide, I am not certain if it should be listed in Blue Book.  After all, a slide is not a patch.   However there is precedent in Blue Book for listing these types of items.    Two lodges spring immediately to mind as examples:  Shawnee 51 (L4 through L4.97) and Ne-Pa-Win 161 (eL1950, the only known official issue of the lodge).   In the latter example the slide holds a unique historical position as the only known legitimate picece issued by the lodge.

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