Vincent Lidie, Citizen of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe

© Will Wilson. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publ…
© Will Wilson
Vincent Lidie, Citizen of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe
© Will Wilson. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Vincent Lidie, Citizen of the Nanticoke Indian Tribe

Date2022
Artist (American photographer, born 1969)
MediumArchival pigment print from wet plate collodion scan
Dimensionsimage: 19 3/8 × 15 1/2 in. (49.2 × 39.4 cm)
sheet: 22 × 17 in. (55.9 × 43.2 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 2022
Object number2022-59
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ClassificationsPHOTOGRAPH
Label TextThis medicine bag I’m wearing was made by my grandmother for a sun dance ceremony when I was a teen. It holds sage from the ceremony. The ribbon shirt is the one I got for the ceremony—it still fits. I was a smudge boy, carrying hot coals and incense. To prevent getting burned, the shirt doesn’t have the traditional ribbons hanging down.

The sun dance ceremony is a Lakota tradition, but an elder had a vision of the ceremony by the water and brought it here. We fast for four days, and there’s a sweat lodge. As a teen, the ceremony cemented my spiritual and cultural roots.
—Vincent Lidie