Gum-Tooth Woman

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In Navajo folklore, Gum-Tooth Woman (sometimes known as Tooth-Gum Woman) appears to be a humorously indecent, bawdy character whose role in tales is to make sexual innuendos in an amusing manner as a way of a highlighting a moral principle.

Photo Credit

 
"Old woman, July 18, 2009" by Tormod Sandtorv is licensed under CC BY-SA.

Published Works
The Blessing Way (1970)
Term Type
Cultural Reference
Manuscript Occurrences

 
A01 The Blessing Way (01-07) p. 41

References

 
Kluckhohn, Clyde, and Dorothea Cross Leighton
     1946   The Navaho. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.