Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth and created the first ceremonial house called a jeu. Growing tired of being alone, Fumeripits carved human figures from trees and placed them in the jeu, but they did not come to life. To remedy this, Fumeripits created a drum from a hollowed tree and stretched lizard skin over it. When he played the drum, the carved human figures miraculously came to life and were the first Asmat people.

1. Conternporary Traditional Asmat culture ,part 2 "The Asmat creation story:funmeripits creates people from trees" By(nengbin nie ),(2-6-2012),(period 4),culture and geography

2. According to asmat tradition :"fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth , and he also created the first mens ceremonial house called a jeu "

3. fumeripits would spend his days dancing along the beach but after awhile grew tired of being alone

4. so he chopped down number of trees carved them into human figures and placed them 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