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Motif · motif_panther

Panther

A black big cat, a fixture of the American Traditional repertoire. Attested by an interviewed traditional artist who lists panthers twice among his classic designs. OPEN QUESTION: no fetched source states a meaning for the panther, so it carries no can_symbolize edge despite being one of the most recognisable traditional subjects.
Thin
Medium confidenceresearched

0 attested · 2 promoted1 source · T2

What the research says

motifs_seed
Category
animal
Variants
crawling panther; panther head; panther with dagger
Common styles
american traditional
Common themes
nature

Provenance

1 resolved

  • The lines of Traditional by Mors (opens in a new tab)

    Tier 2

    Maggie Whales interviewing the tattoo artist Mors, Tattoo Life

    Artist interview. The interviewer describes the subjects Mors tattoos as "roses, skulls, eagles, panthers… and mandalas"; Mors himself lists his classic design panel as "tigers, panthers, snakes, roses, mandalas, torch, eagles" and says "I do love animals in general: big cats, tigers, panthers, eagles, snakes, moth." A practising artist naming a working motif vocabulary in his own words - used for motif EXISTENCE and style association only, never for symbolic meaning, which the interview does not discuss.

    artist interview · published 2024-04-15 · retrieved 2026-08-29

Related concepts

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Associated with · 1

  • → outgoingNatureThemeThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_themes of motif_panther ('nature'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.

Frequently used in · 1

  • → outgoingAmerican TraditionalStyleThin
    strength 0.50promoted · not an independent attestationresearched

    Promoted from motifs_seed.common_styles of motif_panther ('american traditional'). No new fact: this edge restates a value already present in the corpus. STRENGTH 0.5 set by the T11.11c rule: this pairing is asserted by ONE parent row's association column and by no second row; the pack's scale reads 0.5 as 'context-dependent'. Inputs are corpus counts only - no source count, tier or confidence is used.