Arts: One of the Asmat cultural distinctiveness in terms of works of art with sculpture and sculpture-carvings. And it's not out of the belief system of the ancestral spirits of the dead. The patterned carvings of animals, plants, humans, curvilinear motifs contain letters or lines. Carving was poured or disclosed to the objects and colored with white, black and red. The carvings have a symbol that contains the hopes and the values for the life of hard work, courage to face the hard life and hope of the coming blessing of the ancestors.
Religion: They believe in supernatural powers, and when someone dies, his body was not buried. With a view to die spirit of people who still remain in the village, especially if it is in the form porang mbis sculpture. Asmat People believe that they came from the Creator (fumeriptits). Now many who embraced the Catholic religion because many of the founding of the church by teaching through a cultural approach.
Social: Asmat tribe are very responsible and loyal if there is a death of one of the Asmat people. The statement could not be separated from their belief itself. His body was not buried so that his spirit still inhabits the neighborhood of the tribe and to the spirits of their ancestors.
Recourse Literature :
Melalatoa, M. Junus.
1995. Ensiklopedi Suku Bangsa di Indonesia. Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan
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