This sketch features the Blackfeet chief, Many White Horse’s, buffalo hide teepee near what would become Glacier National Park in north western Montana. Sharp prized this teepee and eventually, in about 1905, after several years of negotiating, purchased the treasure from Many White Horses.

In Sharp’s possession, the teepee was originally pitched near his studio at Crow Agency and later outside his Taos studio.  It served as a prop and as an auxiliary studio for many years. The artist donated it, probably in the 1940s, to the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles which still owns the trophy that Sharp always regarded as the last hide teepee in private hands.