Hill's "Transvestites among the whites", 1943

"Transvestites among the whites"

Hill's anthropological study of Navaho humor includes a section on "Humor Based on the Unfamiliar Actions of Foreigners." Hill reports that the clothing of white people is a subject for comment:

Once during a ceremonial which was attended by an unusual number of tourists, one of the older [Navaho] men remarked, "There must be a great many more transvestites among the whites than among the Navaho because so many white women wear trousers.