Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1"Who are the Asmat?"

By Amanda Parada, February 2,2012Period 8, Culture and Geography

Source: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

The asmat are an Indigenous hunter gatherer culture in West Papua, Indonesia. 

West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just 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 the painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.

Traditional Asmat culture is truly awesome. 

Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assmilation are deeply affecting the Asmat 

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

modern world is taking over the Asmat.