tonochim
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Southern Valley Yokuts[edit]
Noun[edit]
tonochim
- (Tachi) undertaker, gravedigger
- (Tachi) male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman
Usage notes[edit]
- Use of this term as a reference to the people who in English have come to be termed "two-spirits" was due to the fact that such people traditionally worked as gravediggers, embalmers and professional mourners among the Yokuts.
- Compare Palewyami Yokuts tonocim, Kocheyali Yokuts tonoo'tcim.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender (2010, →ISBN