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The articulation of gender symmetry in Yuchi culture

In native North American mythology there are a number of narratives that tell how relations between men and woman came to be established and what, hence, they ideally should be today. Myths of the Navajo (Marriott and Rachlin 1968: 116-122) and of the Blood-Peigan (Erdoes and Ortiz 1984: 41-45), for example, relate that, in the beginning, the two genders perceived themselves virtually as independent species, at once attracted to and repelled by each other. It was only after a long struggle with fear, anger, desire, and practical necessity that men and women admitted their interdependence and settled down together in relative peace and happiness, as complements to each other. The myths perhaps tell us little about the daily social behavior of Navajo or Blood men and women. But they do suggest the presence in these cultures of underlying models for gender construction that emphasize the complementarity of men and women to each other and, in this sense, their 'equality'. They 'charter', to use Malinowski's old term, gender symmetry as against the asymmetrical superiority of one gender in society. The Yuchi Indians were agriculturalists in the Piedmont region of the North American Southeast until they were removed to Oklahoma by the federal government in the nineteenth century. Written sources that extend back to 1540 and De Soto's journey (Bauxar 1957, Swanton 1922; see below) suggest that Yuchi society indeed manifested symmetry in the cultural construction of gender before its removal. Through the concrete symmetry of its gender-specific symbolism, Yuchi creation mythology (below) communicates a highly subtle 'charter' of gender complementarity and, according to Ballard (1978, personal communications 1977), the Yuchi evidence the same 'passion for symmetry' in the symbolism of their Green Corn ceremonial today. I will argue that this 'passion' has been exercised in the consistency and thoroughness with which a wide variety of symbolic elements of Yuchi culture have been attributed gender, male or female, and have been brought into careful balance with