Pilling Figurines

These markings and colors have offered insight and revealed how ancient Fremont people dressed and adorned themselves.

They are considered to be among the most important pieces of ancient portable art that have been discovered in the Southwest.

The whereabouts of Number 2 remained a mystery until November 2011 when Utah State University anthropologist Bonnie Pitblado received an anonymous package in the mail.

I have great interest and respect for this continent's native culture and have always hoped to somehow return this to wherever it had come from.

They used a scanning electron microscope to detect the polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) that had originally been applied to all 11 figurines to help preserve them.