In 1920 Sharp exhibited this painting for the first time at the Hotel Gibson in Cincinnati in a show titled Indian Paintings. He repeated that the next year and then sold it. (sales ledger, Sharp Papers)  According to a copy of the catalogue brochure for that second exhibit, he sold it from there to the oilman E. W. Marland who owned the 101 Ranch Oil Company and Marland Oil Company in Ponca City, OK at the time.