A Catholic diocese in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua region organized a cultural festival to help an indigenous tribal group in the promotion and sales of their famous wooden carvings and sculptures.

glass box containing a wooden sculpture of a human head welcomes visitors of Museo delle Culture (MUDEC/Museum of Culture) in Milan, Italy, while a wall dominated by red presents an illustration of ...

The Asmat tribe is the world's most famous cannibalistic tribe and the mere mention of their name used to evoke fear. Asmat tribe This ancient tribe have been accused by Carl Hoffman, in his exposé ...

Asmat hunter-gatherers of Irian Jaya have been experiencing rapid culture change since 1953, yet demographically still can be classified as "living primitives." Methods of nonstandard data analysis ...

Writer Joan Didion once said, “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Had she ever visited the Asmat people of Southern Papua, Indonesia, she might have added to that profound statement “… and ...