A sketch completed in the mid-1790s by Lieutenant-Governor Simcoe's wife, Mrs. Simcoe. Great Sail was an Ojibwa Chief from Lake Simcoe. Peter Jones states in his History of the Ojibway Indians (1860) - reprinted by Canadiana House of Toronto in 1973: "Some of the old men have the hair of their heads cut very close, and others have it plucked up by the roots, except a small tuft on the crown which is left as a bravado, so that in case they should fall into the hands of their enemies they may be scalped with ease" (p. 76). For a review of the role of warfare in native society see: Wendell Hadlock's, "War Among the Northeastern Woodland Indians", American Anthropologist, n.s. (1947), pp. 204-221.
