1. By Jiayi chen ,2 -2 -12 Period 4,culture and geography Source: Caglayan, Ph .D.,Emily,"The Asmat".In Helibrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art,2000-,http://www.metromuseum.org/toah/hd/asma/hd_asma.Mr.Ruben Meza 2012

2. According to Asmat traditional "Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth, and he also created the first men' s ceremonial house called jeu.

3. Fumeripits would spend his day dancing along the beach, but after awhile grew tired of being along.

4. so he chopped down a number of trees, caved them into human figures, and placed inside the jeu.

5. however,since the sculptures were inanimate, fumeripits was still unhappy, he then decided to create a drum, and chopped down another tree, hollowed out the center, and stretched a piece of lizard skin over the top.

6. As he began to play the drum, the human figures miraculously came to life, their elbows came unstuck from their knees, and they began to dance.

7. This is how Fumeripits made people from trees. And the first people were Asmat.