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image by Virginijus Misiunas, 16 January 2010
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Punia - on a field divided per pale blue and white the arms of
Punia: St. Stanislaus resurrecting Petrovin, and horseshoe with
arrow. The meaning of arms granted in 1791 can be explained only
partially: St. Stanislaus represents the grantor King Stanislaus
August, but the meaning of the horseshoe with an arrow is not
known. Similar charges are used in the heraldry of noble
families, but their relations with the arms of Punia (which
depended to the Grand Duke) are unclear: no one of known steward
families (Chreptowicz, Bartusevicius-Mintautavicius, Chodkiewicz,
Alseniskis, Zabrzezinski, Gonciewski-Korwin, Pacas, Brzostowski)
used such arms (though Odrowaz arms of Chreptowicz are
graphically rather similar).
Virginijus Misiunas, 16 January 2010