246 ISLETA. NEW MEXICO [eth. ann. 47 



age; he walked with a cane. Palure wore woman's clothes. He was 

 a plasterer. He always Hved alone. Boys would visit him, chop 

 wood for him, calling him "mother," and would stay late at night, 

 until cockcrow, to be scolded afterwards by their parents. They 

 could not keep away from him. Palure or Palur did not Uke girls, 

 but girls came to his house to meet the boys. The younger giils 

 who had to carry the babies on their backs would come, too, to rest 

 themselves. Nobody made such good cakes as Palur and he would 

 give them to the children. When the boys came in he would send 

 the children away. Palur was a very pretty person, and "they would 

 sell him for a night, sometimes three or four times of a night, to some 

 Mexican or white, fooling them." His name appears to be a nick- 

 name for this, meaning water, jump in. Jumping into the river is 

 an Isletan phrase for sexual intercourse. But palure means also water 

 dripping or sprinkling (see p. 280), and this was the first translation 

 of his name that I got. In spite of some of these facts, there was not 

 in the minds of my two informants, one a man, the other a woman, 

 the slightest idea of attributing perverse sexual practice to this man- 

 woman. To these informants the idea of sexual perversion seemed 

 completely unfamiliar. This ignorance on the part of the woman 

 in particular, a woman completely without sex reticence, is the most 

 convincing evidence I have found of the lack of perversion on the 

 part of the Pueblo man-woman. 



Another Isletan man-woman was called Axa Hose lunude, old 

 father Jos6 man-woman. He dressed in men's clothes which were 

 always Indian buckskin trousers and moccasins. 



From Lucinda I heard again of the last jnan-woman who Hved at 

 old Laguna, and who was involved there in a }nurder.^* After this 

 "Valentino" was released from prison he came to Orai'bi to ^nsit 

 his mother's brother, Francisco Torres. 



\"alentino would tell them how he had carried the murdered 

 husband to the railway track, crying as he told about it. (And 

 Lucinda, the emotional one, cried too.) Valentino was a fine potter. 

 . . . Still earlier there had been another Laguna visitor of the same 

 type at Orai'bi — Kuyuye, who was called Naiya Huye, Mother Huye, 

 at Orai'bi. He had been at school with Lucinda at Santa Fe. "We 

 called him cumare." After some time he was found out at school 

 and made to wear boy's clothes and placed with the boys. From 

 school he went to Orai'bi, where he lived with his uncle, Jose Antonio 

 Correo. He wore trousers, but he did woman's work, grinding and 

 making wafer bread, and canying water. He would not chop wood. 

 He talked like a girl. After staying there three or four years at 

 Orai'bi, he died. 



' See Parsons, 12: 166, 237, 272. Dyaniu (Valentino) was of the Chaparral Cock clan. 



