Modern Defacatory Materiality at the Late Intermediate Period site of Rontoy

Photos by Nathan Craig as part of the Blackberry 8100 study.


This largely toilet paper series is an exploration of the materiality of modern deification at the precolumbian archaeological site of Rontoy, Huaura Valley, Peru.


Bathroom. An ancient adobe tapial wall corner from the site of Rontory is used as cover. Fecies are patterned along the edge of the wall and footprints are visible. Toilet paper is composed of recycled newspaper, napkins, and other sources. Huaura Valley, June 2007.


Alternate perspective of bathroom. Rontoy, Huaura Valley, Peru. June 2007


Toiletpaper and Mummy. Unarranged association of found objects. Napkin recycled for modern toiletpaper in the foreground, a hip bone from a precolumbian burial is visible in the background, and cotton fragments ripped from a mummy bundle are scattered throughout the scene. Rontoy, Huaura Valley, Peru. June 2007.


Toiletpaper. Recycled newspaper at the site of Rontoy.

Sh!t flows downhill. A dessicated diarrhea "mummy" and an ancient fragment of cana brava. The site of Rontoy, Huaura Valley, Peru. June 2007.

One gathers what another spills. Human feces used as a home for insects, Rontoy.