Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture,part 1

Who are the Asmat?

By:JESSICA CEBALLOS, 1-24-12period1, Culture and Geography

The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gather 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.

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

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

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

Traditional Asmat culture is truly awesome.

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 taking over the Asmat.