{"id":108195,"date":"2015-11-17T20:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-library-receives-donation\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T20:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T03:51:18","slug":"towaoc-library-receives-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/towaoc-library-receives-donation\/","title":{"rendered":"Towaoc library receives donation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Courtesy Photo<br><br>Peter Jacobs, a retired art hisory professor at Colorado State University, displays the books he donated to the Ute Mountain Ute tribe this week.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peter Jacobs, a professor emeritus in Colorado State University\u2019s Department of Art and Art History, donated the books on Tuesday, Nov. 3. He stated that he was thrilled that his collection could be utilized to inspire future generations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d hate to see them go somewhere they weren\u2019t useful, and I wanted to keep the collection intact,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jacobs and his wife were honored at a luncheon on Tuesday as tribal officials presented him with a piece of Ute Mountain Ute pottery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the perfect place for this, because I have a bunch of empty book shelves,\u201d Jacobs joked when accepting the gift.<\/p>\n

Jacobs explained that he was inspired to make the donation after learning that a CSU colleague had made a similar gift to the tribe earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Stating he feared the books could potentially end up in a yard sale, Jacobs said the books were broad and touched various Native cultures across North America, spanning from the Florida Seminoles to the Alaska Aleuts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m indebted to you,\u201d an emotional Jacobs told two dozen Ute Mountain Ute tribal members.<\/p>\n

Tribal officials plan to shelve the books in a new art room at the Towaoc library.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so appreciative,\u201d said tribal education director Tanya Amrine. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to know that a big university all the way across the state has a genuine interest in us way down here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jacobs\u2019 research specialty was Native American art, especially in the Northwest. From 1980 to 2000, he spent part of every summer lecturing in British Columbia and Alaska.<\/p>\n

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