The Asmat are an indigenous hunter-gatherer culture living in West Papua, Indonesia, who are among the last remaining hunter-gatherer societies in the world. Their traditional culture includes practices like nose piercing and face/body painting for ceremonies and war, as well as living together in family groups, but their way of life is threatened by deforestation, colonization, and assimilation into modern society.

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

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