Allegiance and chief-less clans

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

I've read several times -- a couple of times on XMTS -- that a person can write to a clan chief to offer his or her allegiance, typically in hopes that the chief would reply and accept their loyalty.

Right now, however, a number of clans are without chiefs. What would a person do in that case?

You are, I believe, a well tanned member of clan MacDuff? Then you should join the Clan MacDuff society (5 Sidlaw Road, Glasgow) and follow the practice of other MacDuff society members.

You are not alone in this. Clan Buchanan has been chiefless for well over--what?-- two centuries, yet has a thriving clan society whose members wear the appropriate tartan and cap badge.