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Noun
ʼaqi
- undertaker
- 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)