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====Official blazon====
===Official blazon===
'''Arms''' : An African shield a fess argent sixteen billets argent overall two bars sable representative of a railroad track in chief azure a muratina tree fruited and eradicated proper in base azure the snow clad peaks of Mount Kenya proper as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted.<br>
'''Arms''' : An African shield a fess argent sixteen billets argent overall two bars sable representative of a railroad track in chief azure a muratina tree fruited and eradicated proper in base azure the snow clad peaks of Mount Kenya proper as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted.<br>
'''Supporters''' : On either side a young Kikuyuman and woman both habited proper and each clasping one of two spears crossed saltirewise behind the shield and the woman holding a scales in her left hand.
'''Supporters''' : On either side a young Kikuyuman and woman both habited proper and each clasping one of two spears crossed saltirewise behind the shield and the woman holding a scales in her left hand.

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KARATINA

Arms (crest) of Karatina

Official blazon

Arms : An African shield a fess argent sixteen billets argent overall two bars sable representative of a railroad track in chief azure a muratina tree fruited and eradicated proper in base azure the snow clad peaks of Mount Kenya proper as the same are in the margin hereof more plainly depicted.
Supporters : On either side a young Kikuyuman and woman both habited proper and each clasping one of two spears crossed saltirewise behind the shield and the woman holding a scales in her left hand.


Origin/meaning

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