The Asmat are an indigenous hunter-gatherer culture living in West Papua, Indonesia, which is part of a large island north of Australia. They are one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer cultures in the world. Traditional Asmat culture includes practices such as nose piercing and wearing feathers, but their way of life is being threatened by deforestation, colonization, and assimilation into the modern world.

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

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

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