Macqueen Clan tartan and badge.
The Macqueen Clan (variously spelled Cuinn, Suibne, Sweyn, MacCunn, MacSween, MacSuaine, and MacSwan) occupied the region of the west Highlands and the Hebrides. Our ancestors the Swans were part of the Macqueen Clan. Later the Macqueens settled just to the south of Inverness and into the Strathdearn (Monadhliath Mountains), along the River Findhorn in the Highland County of Inverness (in the old county of Nairn), the same area as the Mackintosh and the MacBean clans. The clan was part of the Clan Chattan confederation. Its Gaelic name is MacShuibhne. The crest badge is a wolf rampant ermine holding a pheon gules point downward argent. The motto of the Macqueen Clan was "Constant and faithful." Its plant badge talismans were the red whortleberry and the boxwood.

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Source: John Bartholomew & Son, Ltd., Clan Map of Scotland (Duncan Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 1984); Collins Gem (HarperCollins Publishers), Clans and Tartans (Westerhill Road, Bishopbriggs, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 1999).