Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture , part 1

" Who are the Asmat ? "

By ( Daisy Gerardo ) , ( Feb. 2 , 2012 ) ( Per. 6 ) , 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 north of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean .

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

One traditional of the Asmat is the 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 interesting . [:

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

Irreversibly , this is the ending of one of

earth's last traditional

hunter gatherer culture . The odern world is

taking over the Asmat .