The Asmat are an indigenous hunter-gatherer people living in West Papua, Indonesia, one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world; they have traditions including nose piercing and body painting for ceremonies and war, but their traditional culture is threatened by deforestation, colonization and assimilation as the modern world takes over their lands.

1. Contemporary Traditional Asmat Culture, part 1 "Who are the Asmat?" By Amanda Parada, February 2,2012 Period 8, Culture and Geography Source: Mr. Ruben Meza, 2012

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 of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean.

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

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

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

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly awesome.

8. Sadly though, deforestation, colonization, and assmilation are deeply affecting the Asmat

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