Much of July 2021 was occupied with preparation for Dr. Wendsler Nosie Sr.’s granddaughter Sage’s Sunrise Ceremony. The Sunrise Ceremony, which marks an Apache girl’s coming of age, is a physically strenuous process where she spiritually transitions into a woman. Though the ceremony itself lasts four days, the family’s preparation for it begins the moment a girl is born. Here Dr. Nosie and Tyler Patten, a close family friend, take down meat to be cut on July 7, 2021. The previous day, the family butchered a cow to feed everyone at the upcoming ceremony. Signs from a past ceremony and one of Dr. Nosie’s political campaigns were used to keep the family’s dogs away from the meat as it hung overnight to drain.
Archival Giclee Digital Print
Felix Schooller True Baryta 310gsm
AR70
800 x 600
1100 x 830
