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I will not have my life narrowed down! A protest sign against Sam Durant's "Scaffold" sculpture on the perimeter fence at the Walker Art Center

Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.

 

"Scaffold," a wood & steel sculpture by the artist Sam Durant, was a composite of the representations of 7 historical gallows used in US state-sanctioned executions by hanging between 1859 and 2006. One of them being the gallows constructed in Mankato, Minnesota to simultaneously hang 38 Dakota men on December 26, 1862 on orders signed by President Lincoln following the U.S.-Dakota War. The Mankato execution is the largest one-day execution in US history.

 

Some additional information on the context of historical events surrounding the Mankato hanging:

www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05/30/why-scaffold-struck-so-f...

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Uploaded on June 1, 2017