Told by Peter York.
The Ojibwas were once entering Lake Couchiching by the west side in
winter time on the ice. They were going across to fight the Mohawks on
the east side, when an old Mohawk woman came down to the ice hole to
get some water. She saw the Ojibwas coming and turned her back to them
and exposed her anus in contempt and otherwise made fun of them. Then
she went and told her people. The opposing warriors fought on the ice
and the Mohawks were beaten. After the battle the Ojibwas painted a red
woman in just the same position as the Mohawk woman posed, on the rocks
on the east shore near where the fight took place (now called
McPherson’s Quarry or Geneva Park). This figure now remains and can be
seen to day. (It is about 5 or 6 feet above water and is about 1 ft.
high.)