Chippewa Encampment on the Upper Mississippi
- Artist
- Seth Eastman, American, 1808–1875
- Date
- c.1845
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- depicts
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Paintings
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 14 1/4 × 20 1/4 in. (36.2 × 51.4 cm)
framed: 20 1/2 × 26 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. (52.1 × 67.6 × 8.3 cm) - Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Arden
- Rights
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- Object Number
- 147:1974
NOTES
In this scene a group of Anishinaabe (Chippewa) Native Americans return to their winter birch bark wigwams. Seth Eastman, the artist, was commander of Forth Snelling, Minnesota, the farthest northwestern army post on the Mississippi River. Eastman, like many of those who created the earliest non-Native visual records of the American West, had learned topographical drawing as a student at the United States Military Academy at West Point.