Gaylord Torrence, senior curator of Indian Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, is curator of the international traveling exhibition “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky.” The exhibit opens in April 2014 in Paris and then travels to Kansas City and New York City. Among the pieces featured in the exhibition is the Sioux Horse Effigy Stick, which also serves as the logo of the South Dakota State Historical Society. The Effigy Stick is considered a masterpiece of Lakota sculpture and one of only two known horse effigy dance sticks of its kind in the world. The effigy is thought to have been carved around 1875 to honor a horse that fell in battle.