Note 9 — STORIES ACCOMPANIED BY TEXTS

After they had lived there for a while he went out wearing his wren skin. He said: “Mother, look at me.” Then his mother went out after him. He sat as broad, high, cumulus clouds over the ocean.9 His mother looked. Then he came in and asked his mother: “Did I look well?” “Yes, chief, my son, you looked well.” Then he also took the blue-jay skin, and he said to his mother: “Look at me.” Then she went out after him. Her son sat blue, broad, and high over the sea. Then he came in and said: “Mother, did I look well?” “Yes, chief, my son, you looked well.” And he also went out with the woodpecker and said: “Mother, look at me.” Then she went out after him. He sat over the sea, the upper part of him being red. She smiled at her son, and when he came in he said: “Mother, did I look well?” “Yes, chief, my son, the supernatural beings will not tire of looking at you.”