Thursday, November 20, 2008

Honoring the Ancestors as Worlds Collide

An ancient Andean monument has been gouged by looters seeking precolumbian treasures; modern squatters (many Indigenous peoples from the highlands) who have migrated to the coast seeking a better life use the looter's pit as a bathroom and trash dump. Disembodied human arm and leg bones (many with flesh still attached), shredded funerary textiles, and shattered pottery are mixed in with modern human fecies, shreds of paper used for wiping, and plastic trash.Photo by Nathan Craig.
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