clele

Wailaki

Noun

clele

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

See also

• two-spirit

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