tonochim

Southern Valley Yokuts

Noun

tonochim

  1. (Tachi) undertaker, gravedigger
  2. (Tachi) male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

Usage notes
  • 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

References
  • Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender (2010, →ISBN
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