Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1

"Who are the Asmat?"    

By Daniel Rodarte, 1/31/12 Period 8,   Culture and geography

Source: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gather culture in West Papua, Indonesia

West Papua is about 1/2 of 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 for both ceremony and war.

Traditional Asmat culture is truly cool.

Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assimilation are deeply affection the Asmat

Irreversibly, this is the ending of earth's last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern world is taking

over the Asmat