What A Turkey!
Posted in Patch Collecting by John E. Pannell on November 27th, 2008 at 5:02 am 
Unalachtigo 168 X1
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today’s a great day to highlight some my favorite OA patches that are real turkeys… or at least have turkeys on them.
No discussion of turkey patches can really get started without first mentioning some great issues from Unalachtigo 168. My favorite turkey patch is this lodge’s X1, originally issued on a neckerchief. A very similar design was also used on this lodge’s chenilles.
Unalachtigo 168 A1
Starting with the lodge’s first arrowhead patch, A1, and except for a few activity patches a turkey of some sort has appeared on all this lodge’s issues. The A1, a classic “felt on felt”, depicts the most primitive looking turkey of them all.
Victorio 177 F1
Another classic turkey of a patch is the lone authentic flap from Victorio 177. Victorio lodge was formerly attached to Cochise Council headquartered in Douglas, AZ. That council was absorbed by Catalina Council in Tuscon, AZ in 1965. Victorio lodge was thus absorbed into Papago 494.
Kootaga 201 R3
Kootaga 201 depicted a turkey on one of their patches for a reason that some might find of questionable tasted. The lodge’s R3, also cross-listed as eR19xx-2, has a simple design featuring a turkey, along with the text “Turkey in Training”. Blue Book comments that this is a “possible candidate’s patch”. i know nothing more about this patch.
Tamegonit 147 S1
Even though Blue Book lists their totem as an owl Tamegonit 147 has included a turkey on many of their issues. A couple of traditional poses have been used. It first appears as a standing turkey on the lodge’s first three solid flaps (S1-S3) and first neckerchief patch (P1). The standing turkey also reappeared on several of the lodge’s later special issues such as the S51 and S52 issued for the 2004 NOAC.
Tamegonit 147 S45
Later Tamegonit chose to depict the turkey in flight. This pose has been used on most of the lodge’s standard flaps, many of their special issue flaps, and various other issues up to the present day.
Members of the lodge displayed a sense of humor with their 2006 NOAC patch sets. These sets depicted the turkey dressed as a 1960s flower child.
Occoneechee 104 eX2003-4
Occoneechee lodge also took a light hearted approach to using a turkey in a patch design. Of all the lodge issues using this bird, theirs is certainly closest to how most of us will see a turkey on Thanksgiving day, on a platter! This is their eX2003-4, issued for the lodge’s 2003 Winter Banquet.
Aal-Pah-Tah 237 eX2003-5
Aal-Pah-Tah 237 has also used a turkey for comical effect on some of their recent patches issued in conjunction with the council’s Mega Scout Show. The one pictured here is especially appropriate for Thanksgiving day. It looks like a rather startled turkey is about to become a meal for a hungray gator.
Know of any other turkey patches?
Enjoy! Maybe next year, I’ll highlight patches that put you to sleep after you eat too much, or give the secret for how to remove cranberry sauce stains from white twill.
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That 168 X1 is a great looking patch! One of my favorite “turkey” patches is the Te’kening 37 P1.
This is a beauty I completely forgot…
And the lodge has plenty of other “turkeys”, too!
Now I have a patch that is a turkey without the bird. Take a look at the 2005 National Jamboree Issue from Wauna La-Mon’Tay 442.
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