The men from the Powhatan tribe had asymmetrical haircuts and Margaret Holmes writes this article in effort to explain to the reader why they did so. Williamson argues that the strange haircuts, “represented the creative potential of its wearer.” (Williamson, 1979, 408). “Powhatan Hair” Written by Margaret Holmes Williamson, who is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mary Washington. The reader can understand that the purpose for Williamson writing this article is to justify the reasoning behind the haircuts of the Powhatan men and women. The Author uses both primary and secondary sources; she not only uses the journals written in the 1600’s, but she also reads what other people in her century were writing and opinionating, about,
