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Koshare Indian Museum 115 West 18th Street La Junta, CO 81050 (719) 384-4411

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KOSHARE KIVA

HISTORY

WORLD FAMOUS KOSHARES

TRADING POST

You will find authentic Native American and Western crafts and gifts to give, to collect, and to appreciate in the Koshare Trading Post.

In addition, to the art and artifacts, see the largest self-supported log roof in the world -- one of the most popular features in the museum.

Discover the inspiring story of how a group of boys built the Koshare program. The story begins at the bottom of the Great Depression.

The Koshare Indian Dancers are the members of Boy Scout Troop 232 and Venturing Crew 2230 of the Rocky Mountain Council, Boy Scouts of America.

One of the 239 charcoal drawings donated to the museum by Zepeda

Ernesto Zepeda Gives Collection

On August 6th, Program Director Jeremy Manyik received a call from Ernesto Zepeda who announced that he was leaving the country permanently and needed to dispose of some charcoal drawings. He felt the Koshare Indian Museum would be a good place for these drawings. Unfortunately, he was in a rush and would not be able to travel to Colorado to deliver the items. As fortune or fate would have it, the Koshare Indian Dancers were traveling to New Mexico over the weekend to attend Feast Days. Ernesto declared that it was “meant to be” and the Museum acquired some wonderful pieces of art. His “few drawings” turned out to be more that we could have wished for. A quick inventory by Jeremy of the pieces is as follows:

178 oil paintings

6 pastels

97 ink/marker drawings

239 charcoal drawings

1 watercolor

6 prints of his charcoals

1 Maria Martinez banner

2 drums (hand held and small Pueblo upright)

1 Woody Crumbo signed print

Several Old Photos Zepeda used for his studies

Ernesto Zepeda Biography

Letter From Ernesto Zepeda

Comment on Ernesto

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