Jan 29
The Asmat People of West Papua: Carving Memory, Living with the Ancestors
Asmat Carving Figures, Source: https://asmatmuseum.org/ Along the vast, tidal wetlands of southern West Papua—where rivers braid endlessly through mangrove forests and the sea breathes in and out with the moon—live the Asmat people, one of the most distinctive Indigenous cultures in the world. For generations, the Asmat have shaped a civilization not around monuments of stone or written…