ملف:Artist Sam Durant speaking about his sculpture, "Scaffold" at a press conference at the Walker Art Center 2.jpg

English: Sam Durant's "Scaffold" is a wood & steel sculpture that was to be placed in the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. It is 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 American history.