1. Comtemporary Traditional Asmat Culture,part1 who are the Asmat By jiawen xu,1/28/12,per4, culture and geography source:Mr.Ruben Meza,2012

2. The Asmat are an indigenous hunter 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

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

5. One traditional of the Asmat is the piercing of the septum of the nose

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

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly

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 cultures.The modern world is taking over the Asmat