1. Contemporary Traditional
Asmat Culture,part 1
Who are the Asmat?
By:JESSICA CEBALLOS, 1-24-12
period1, Culture and Geography

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

3. West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just
north of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.

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

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

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

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly awesome.

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

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