- Asmat people - Wikipedia
The Asmat are an ethnic group of New Guinea, residing in the province of South Papua, Indonesia The Asmat inhabit a region on the island's southwestern coast bordering the Arafura Sea, with lands totaling approximately 18,000 km 2 (7,336 mi 2) and consisting of mangrove, tidal swamp, freshwater swamp, and lowland rainforest
- The Asmat - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Located in southwestern New Guinea, the Asmat live along the vast system of rivers that flow into the Arafura Sea With an estimated population of 70,000, the Asmat are divided into several hundred villages ranging in size from 35 to 2,000 inhabitants
- Art and Culture of the Asmat - Wichita State University
Explore traditional and ceremonial art of the Asmat, an ethnic group of New Guinea residing in the Papua province of Indonesia, in one of the largest and most important collections of its kind found in the United States
- The Asmat Tribe, The Remote People Of New Guinea
An ethnic group based on the western coast of New Guinea, the Asmat tribe is known for its wood-carving skills and its alleged role in the 1961 disappearance of Michael Rockefeller
- ASMAT: THEIR HISTORY, RELIGION AND HEADHUNTING | Facts and . . .
The Asmat is a group of former cannibals and headhunters that live along the remote southwest coast of Papua Also known as the Asmat-wo and Samot, they are a hunting, fishing and gathering people famed for their elaborate woodcarving They hunted heads up until perhaps the 1980s and only recently switched from stone and bone tools to metal ones
- Asmat Regency - Wikipedia
Asmat Regency is a regency (kabupaten) in the northwestern portion of the Indonesian province of South Papua It is bounded to the southwest by the Arafura Sea, to the southeast and east by Mappi Regency, to the north by Highland Papua Province and to the northwest by Central Papua Province
- Asmat - Introduction, Location, Language, Folklore, Religion . . .
The Asmat are a Melanesian people who live within the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya They are widely known for the quality of their wood sculptures They are also notorious for their traditional practices of headhunting and cannibalism
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