ʼaqi

See also: AQI

Ventureño

Noun

ʼaqi

  1. undertaker
  2. male-bodied person who dresses and lives as a woman

Usage notes
  • Used 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 undertakers among the Chumash, as among the Yokuts.

See also

References
  • Jeanne E. Arnold, Foundations of Chumash Complexity (2004)
  • Scott Herring, The Cambridge Companion to American Gay and Lesbian Literature (2015, →ISBN)
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