1. Contemporary Traditional Asmat culture "who are the Asmat" By Christian Frias 1/24/12 Per:1th culture and Geography Mr.Ruben Meza

2. The Asmat are an indigenous hunter gatherer culture is west Papua, Indonesia.

3. West Papua is about 1/2 of a very large island just north of Australian 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 the Astam is painting the faces and body for both ceremony and war.

7. Traditional Asmat culture is truly an educe tribe

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

9. Irreversibly, tstionhis is the ending of one of earths last traditional hunter gatherer cultures. the modern word is taking over the Asmat