Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1"Who are the Asmat?"By Codey Ho, 1/24/12 

Period 1, culture and geographySource: 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 north of Australia in the South Pacific.

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

One tradition of the Asmat is 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 amazing

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 cultures. The modern

world is taking over the Asmat.

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

world is taking over the Asmat.