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

• two-spirit

References

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