According to Sharp’s sales ledgers for March, 1906, he sold this portrait to Butler at that time. (Sharp Papers) He had painted her father a couple of times around 1900 and entered one of those portraits in the Pan-American Exposition in 1901.  The Northern Cheyenne leader, Chief Little Chief, was known to Sharp as "a noted fighting chief and oldest of the tribe." (Official Catalogue, Pan-American Exposition, #139)

In late 1901, Sharp presented two portraits of the chief at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC.  One was owned by Joseph G. Butler, Jr. (since deaccessioned by the Butler Institute of American Art) and the other was for sale (current location unknown).