Contemporary Traditional Asmat culture,part1 

"Who are the Asmat?"

by Saul Martinez,1/24/12  per 1, Culture and Geography

source:Mr. Ruben Meza,2012

 

The Asmat are 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 culture in the world.              

   

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

   

Another tradition of Asmat is painting the face and body for both ceremony and war.

Traditional Asmat culture is truly the way of living in nature.                                     

   

Sadly though,deforestation, colonization and assimilation are deeply  affecting the Asmat.

Irreversibly, this is the ending of one of earth's last traditional hunter gatherer culture . The modern world is taken over the Asmat.