Có Pak
(20th century) Klamath - U.S.A.
Woman berdache
Berdache usually cross-dressed and mimicked the lifestyle of the opposite sex, thus they were accepted as such, regardless of their true gender. Such berdache women married women.
Có Pak (or Co'pak), of the Klamath, "had a wife, with whom she lived for many years" and when her wife died she mourned for her.
Source: Williams, Walter L., The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986, pag. 242
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