Visting the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum.
6 year old Tauri Raines discovers a picture of herself when she was 4 years old hanging in a hallway at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum Tuesday. Tauri was visiting the museum with her grandmother Dixie Naranjo of Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.
7 year old Wilco Ballstadt from Des Moines, Iowa gazes skyward through the center of the entrance area of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum Tuesday. Wlico and his 12 year old sister Isabell Robinson visited the museum with their grandmother Lynn Blakesley of Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.<br>
12 year old Jake Stuckey of Live Oaks, FL walks out of a tee pee on display at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum Tuesday. Jake was visiting the museum with his parents Angie and J. Stuckey. . Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.
Nathan Strong Elk, acting Executive Director of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum works within the vault area of the museum Tuesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.
Nathan Strong Elk , acting Executive Director of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum holds a pottery from the Father Madden collection within the vault area of the musem Tuesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald.
Nathan Strong Elk , acting Executive Director of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum holds a matate, used to grind corn, within the vault area of the musem Tuesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Visitors enter the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum in Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
7 year old Wilco Ballstadt from Des Moines, Iowa walks through the entrance of a teepee at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum. Wlico and his 12 year old sister Isabell Robinson visited the museum with their grandmother Lynn Blakesley of Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Nathan Strong Elk , acting Executive Director of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum, examines a contemporary Dance Bustle within the vault area of the museum Tuesday. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
Acting Executive Director of the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum , Nathan Strong Elk holds a black on grey Gourd Pot from the Basket maker III or Early Pueblo I period within the vault area of the museum Tuesday.
6 year old Tauri Raines discovers a picture of herself when she was 4 years old hanging in a hallway at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum. Tauri was visiting the museum with her grandmother Dixie Naranjo of Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
7 year old Wilco Ballstadt from Des Moines, Iowa traces over rock art symbols at an interactive station at the Southern Ute Cultural Center and Museum. Wlico and his 12 year old sister Isabell Robinson visited the museum with their grandmother Lynn Blakesley of Ignacio. Photo by Shaun Stanley/Durango Herald
