In a note to Frank Phillips written in about 1940, Sharp described this important early work as follows: "Crow Agency, Montana. Painted in 1903-4. When Mink, a noted warrior, lost his wife, he sat thus, grieving all night; never raised his head nor spoke to condoling friends. At the time, his teepee was three or four hundred yards from my cabin and I spent much time there observing. The floor was a great buffalo rug; the background an elk skin teepee lining. At the head, a willow backrest on which the medicine bag hangs. The best Indian figure I ever painted." (Woolaroc archives)

Exhibited at Fishel, Adler & Schwartz in New York, 1906, the John Herron Institute in Indianapolis, the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts in 1908 and the Swan Gallery, Kansas City, MO early 1909.

There is a study for this work at the Stark Museum, #621.