List of Heraldic Charges - Humans

Humans

Humans may be used as charges, usually as heads rather than as whole individuals. (Particularly in Europe, the "default" human is almost always depicted as one of European ancestry, naturally, though contrary examples can very occasionally be seen. "Humans" so blazoned are rare, though there are some examples, such as a group of people (a human figure made of honeycomb-like cells appears in the arms of Machetá, Colombia).

• A two-headed figure with one head a man's and one head a woman's: the arms of di Petris-Fragianni.
• A " in the Australian Aboriginal manner of an Arnhem Land rock painting of a woman with stylised internal anatomy": is the central charge in the arms of the Northern Territory of Australia.
• A dead woman: the arms of Moura, Portugal.
• There are also some examples of a man, not more fully described.

However, there are a number of frequently occurring types of men, usually just as heads, and other infrequently occurring examples.

• The Maure or "blackamoor" is accurately shown as being African, although James Parker states that an "African" appears in the arms of Roupell of Chartham Park.
• Englishman
• A "négre" (= Negro): in the arms of Braunjohan.
• Saracen
• Saxon
• Turk
• Welshman
• The head of a Greek warrior: in the arms of the 642d Military Intelligence Battalion
• A "conquistador's head": in the arms of the 202d Field Artillery Regiment, of the United States Army.
• An Aboriginal head: in the arms of the city of Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia.
• The "bust of a Jew": in the arms of Jud de Bruckberg.
• Young men's heads appear in the arms of Nurmijärvi, Finland.

Generally speaking, there is only one type of woman (young, beautiful and blonde, with disheveled hair, but there are occasional instances of her hair being braided), and appearing more often as a bust than head.

• A brunette : Elzanowski et Elzanowski-Sepiathere
• A Moorish woman: Apfaltrer d'Apfaltrera.
• "The upper body of a Xhosa woman": in the municipal arms of Lingelethu West (South Africa).

The "maiden" or "virgin" overlaps with the woman to a large degree. A "maiden in her modesty" is one who is covering her breasts with one arm and her groin with the other hand.

• The symbol for a woman: in the arms of the Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell, former Prime Minister of Canada.

There are rare occurrences of the child, both the head and entire, and while almost without exception and by default a child is defined as a boy, the arms of Frans Bernhard Staal specify a "male child" (but in the arms of Maravilha, Brazil the children are specified to be male and female).

• A young girl appears in the arms of Boul.

There are a number of appearances of the "infant"

• Three newborns' heads: the arms of Auvity.
• An African mother and baby: the arms of the Order of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Episcopal Church.

outh's heads: in the arms of Davidson