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1. by: Alejandra Cervantes . January 24,2012. Culture and Geography Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012 Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1 "Who are the Asmat?"

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

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

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

5. One traditional of the asmat is the piercing of the spetum of the nose

6. Another tradition of the asmat culture truly a unique culture

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly an awesome culture because they have piercing at thier faces and body and because they wear feathers on top of their head

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

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