Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part1''Who are the Asmat''

By Daniel Tejashun,2/6/12 period 4 Culture and Geography 

 

The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture in west Papua Indonesia.

 

West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island  just north of Australia in

the south pacific ocean

 

The traditional Asmat are one of the last hunter gatherer cultures in the world.

One tradition of the Asmat is the Piercing of the septum of the nose.

 

Another tradition of the Asmat is painting the faces and body ceremony and war.

 

Traditional Asmat culture is truly cool.

Sadly though deforestation colizanation and assimilation are deeply affecting the asmat 

irreversibly this is the ending of one of earths last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. the modern world

 is taking over the Asmat.