Note 39 — Supernatural-being-who-went-naked

Now, he put on a dancing blanket and dancing leggings and started along on land near his younger brothers [who were going along in their canoe]. He bent over as he ran, and farther off he stood up straight. In that way Supernatural-being-who-went-naked became the Swamp-robin.39 And his younger brothers lay still on the water out at sea. People sometimes become shamans [by getting power] out of that canoe.