Also known as Macpherson of Pitmain, Badenoch.

D.W.Stewart said (in 1893) ''it was the earliest known to have been worn by the clan, and is reputed to have been worn in two forms; as a clan tartan with a white ground and as a hunting tartan with a grey ground. It first appeared in the Smiths' 1850 'Authenticated Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland' who said of it: "This pattern, which, upon the Chief's authority, we give as the Hunting MacPherson was made . . . . for the grandmother of the present representative of the family, from an old shawl or plaid, which had been preserved in Cluny Castle for some generations."