clele

Wailaki

Noun

clele

  1. male-bodied person who lives as a woman and does women's work, especially basket-work

See also

References
  • University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, volume 33 (1965, edited by Frederick Ward Putnam and ‎Alfred Louis Kroeber): Several berdaches (clele) known; did women's work (their baskets finer than women's); bothered no one.
  • Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men
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