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Tuesday, May 1

Asmat in papua

The tribes asmat in papua



As we all know that Indonesia consists of many types of tribes with different customs are different from each lain.Suku-families, the living on the coast, urban and even the interior. One of them Asmat.



Was among the Asmat tribe Mappi, Yohukimo and Jayawijaya among various other tribes in New Guinea. As with other tribes in this region, there Asmat who live in coastal areas with the distance of 100 km to 300 km, even Asmat is located in the countryside, surrounded by forests containing heterogeneous plant rattan, wood (gaharu) and tubers with a travel time for 1 day 2 nights to reach settlements with each other. While the distance between the settlements with the district about 70 km. With such geographical conditions, then the walk is the only way to reach each other in the lush countryside.



In general, the physical condition of members of the Asmat people, straight boned, sharp nose with skin color and black hair and round her eyelids. In addition, the Asmat tribe belonging to the Polonesia, which is also found in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea.


Asmat tribe is a tribe in Papua. Asmat tribe known as the result of a unique wood carvings. Asmat tribe population is divided into two, namely those living in coastal areas and those living in the countryside. both populations are inter berbada each other in terms of lifestyle, social, and its structure ritual.populasi coast further divided into two parts Bisman tribe that sits between the river and the river sinesty nin and tribal Simai.

habit


In the Asmat people's lives, is still a lot of very strange habits. One of them, their habits are very terrible and difficult to accept common sense, that is when they kill their enemies.


They still use the ways prehistoric times. Once killed, the bodies of the enemy was brought back to the village. In villages, bodies cut into pieces, and then divided into the entire population. The residents came together and ate together pieces of dead bodies.



When it takes the body together, the residents sang a song they call death. Not quite up there, they were beheading the corpse. The brain the body is taken, then wrapped in sago leaves. After that, the brain is baked to be eaten together. How terrible.


Asmat people are good at making decorative carvings. Remarkably, they make the carving without sketching first. Carvings which they make have meaning, that is the dedication and gratitude to ancestors. For the Asmat, carving rather than the mundane. Carve the way for them to get in touch with the ancestors.


The Asmat people believe that the spirits of the dead could spell disaster for people who are still alive, cause wars, also spread the disease. To avoid this, the Asmat people will create sculptures and organizes a wide range of parties. Among them is the party bus, party Milch, Sago Worm Festival, and the Feast of Masks.


There are a lot of disagreement among the Asmat village. The most horrible is the means used to kill enemies Asmat tribe. when the enemy killed, his body was brought kekampung, then cut and distributed to all residents to eat together. they sing the song of death and decapitated him. brain dibunngkus sago leaves and roasted then eaten.

Asmat life has not been much affected by modern life. One example is custom decorated. They are decorated according to their own way. They tarnished the face of various colors. The colors are those obtained with a very simple way. Colors that they use to decorate the face is red, white, and black.



For the red, they get a lot of red earth around them. The white color they get from the previous shell until finely ground. And, black, they get from charcoal, which is also ground into powder.
in addition to culture, the villagers are also very good at making syuru carvings such as Asmat tribe generally.

Carving for Asmat tribe could be a link between contemporary life with the lives of ancestors. residing in each carved image and respect for their ancestors are loaded with greatness Asmat tribe.



Sculptures and carvings generally they make no sketches. for when the Asmat tribe menukir where the statue is someone while they are communicating with ancestors yag is on other realms. It is possible because they know the three concepts of the world: It ow capinmi (natural lifetime), ow Dampu campinmi (pesinggahan nature spirits who have died), and Safar (heaven).


Trust before entering dusurga



It is said that the statue of the bus is the most sacred form of sculpture. but now make a statue of Asmat tribe not only meet the call of tradition. because the engraving that they also sell to a stranger at a party while carving. they know the results of high-priced hand-carved between Rp. 100 thousand to millions of dollars out of Papua.

Livelihood



Habits to survive and find food among the tribes with other tribes in the district-Mitak Citak was almost the same. Asmat tribal land, tribal and ethnic mitak citak in the habit of daily living in the forest hunting animals separti, snakes, cassowaries 


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