Premodern Turkic and Mongolic polity names are full of color and animal references, sometimes both; Blue Horde, Golden Horde, Black Sheep Turkomens, White Sheep Turkomens, Yellow Goat Yörüks, etc. They have all sorts of meanings depending on culture, context, religion, and almost 1,000 years of recorded history.
On a whim I decided to mash together some of the more common symbolic colors from Turko-Mongolic traditions with the animals from anklebone dice, plus a few other important (if expensive) herd animals from the history of Afro-Eurasian pastoral nomadism since shagai only have 4 sides.
... Man, I really need to design a d4 game around anklebones someday.
Anyway, my attempts amounted to a little d6 table for generating tribal confederation names, in case that's a thing anybody needed.
I rolled the Red Yaks, whom I decided originate from a plateau or mountainous area to the south of the central steppe region (red being representative of the cardinal direction south in several Eurasian cultures). Most of the constituent tribes don't actually herd yaks anymore since they migrated downhill due to climatic changes, but they kept the animal as a totem of sorts.
This is where I'd also post a generator for tribal tamghas if I had a shred of artistic or webtool coding skill. But I don't, so for inspiration here's a picture of a page of tamghas found in and around northwestern Mongolia, at least according to an old book by the geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö.
I thought there was a single page of all the tamghas from the Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk floating around somewhere online but I can't find it, and I'm not about to stitch together all the .svg files Wikipedia has. Check the book out if you like the history of linguistics though.
