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Asmat Cultural Festival, Indonesia

Asmat culture festival will be crowded exhibit typical Asmat woodcarving is an object of high artistic merit. The Asmat are known to have the ability to make a qualified art wood carving in which they can directly engrave directly without drawing a sketch first.

For Asmat, woodcarving they make closely related to the ancestral spirits and are therefore not merely considered as a work of art. Many of the art objects made ​​Asmat is a symbol of warfare, headhunting, and warrior worship of ancestors. For centuries, the Asmat to accommodate their ancestral spirits to produce incredible works of art in the form of shields, canoes, sculptured, and drums.

















Located in the southern part of Papua and overlooking the Arafura Sea, once part of the Asmat regency of Merauke. In February 2011, the district received recognition as a UNESCO world heritage site.











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