This painting was offered for sale several times between 1906 and 1916. It seems to have first appeared at the Fishel, Adler & Schwartz Galleries in New York under the title of The Drummers. He priced the large work at $1,800. Later, he showed it at the St. Louis Museum of Fine Arts in a 1908 exhibition A Collection of Paintings Depicting the American Indian. Four years later, Sharp showed the work at the University Club in Cincinnati in An Exhibition of Pictures of the West and again in 1916 at Cincinnati's Hotel Gibson in Indian & Wester Paintings. Its title then was The Drummers - A Pause in the Dance.

Sharp had a photomechanical print made of this work in 1906. (sample in Stark Museum of Art collection) The painting was illustrated in Leslie's Weekly, January 3, 1907 as The Drummers - A Pause in the Dance.