Conflicting inscriptions are associated with this watercolor, one identifying the camp as Sioux, the other as Assiniboin. A woodcut obviously based on this painting illustrates the section of Travels in the Interior of North America dealing with the stay at Fort Pierre in June, 1833, and the watercolor therefore most likely depicts one of the Sioux camps that Maximilian and Bodmer visited at that time. The scene is a domestic one, with smoke rising from the smoke hole of the central tipi and a woman in the foreground scraping or softening a small hide.