thumb|We'wha, a notable Zuni lhamana fiber artist and cultural ambassador, weaving on a backstrap loom Lhamana, in traditional Zuni culture, are biologically male people who take on the social and ceremonial roles usually performed by women in their culture, at least some of the time. They wear a mixture of women's and men's clothing and much of their work is in the areas usually occupied by Zuni women. Some contemporary lhamana participate in the pan-Indian two-spirit community.
thumb|We'wha, a notable Zuni lhamana fiber artist and cultural ambassador, weaving on a backstrap loom Lhamana, in traditional Zuni culture, are biologically male people who take on the social and ceremonial roles usually performed by women in their culture, at least some of the time. They wear a mixture of women's and men's clothing and much of their work is in the areas usually occupied by Zuni women. Some contemporary lhamana participate in the pan-Indian two-spirit community.
The most famous lhamana was We'wha (1849–1896), who in 1886 was part of the Zuni delegation to Washington D.C., where We'wha met with President Grover Cleveland.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).