The Asmat are an indigenous hunter-gatherer culture living in West Papua, Indonesia. West Papua is located on the western half of the island of New Guinea north of Australia. The Asmat were one of the last remaining hunter-gatherer societies in the world, with traditions like nose piercing and body painting for ceremonies and war, but their traditional culture is threatened by deforestation, colonization, and assimilation into the modern world.

1. The Asmat Background

2. The Asmat are 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 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 painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly about living together with family

8. Sadly though, deforestation, colonization,and assimilation is deeply affecting the Asmat

9. Irreversibility, this is the ending of one of earths last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. The modern world is taking over the Asmat