DESTINATION - Wood Carving Museum Collection Asmat So World

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DESTINATION - Wood Carving Museum Collection Asmat So World
 Many Asmat wood carving that inhabit the area along the southern coast of Papua Island became a valuable collection in a number of world-class museums, one of them is the Museum of Natural Art in New York, United States.

So recognized, Leadership "Papua-Explorer", Dr. F. Werner Weiglein in Jayapura, responded Sunday Papuan cultural richness that is fascinating people of the world.

He said, wood carvings Asmat work very interesting because his motives are diverse with a high level of complexity seen from the tools used for carving and full of cultural meaning.

For example, facial carvings depicting ancestors, the animals are close to the community such as cassowaries and crocodiles and anthropomorphic motifs.

In addition, Asmat wood carvings are also a part close to the life of the community because most were found in all the things they have like the pillars in the YEU (traditional house), a shield to fight and clappers.

Dr.Weiglen added expertise Asmat wood carving not only become art objects are unique and interesting, but also to make a canoe that is used as the main transportation people who live in swamp areas with streams, mangrove forests covered much.

"Long canoe made of wood can reach 15 meters and a few canoes decorated with carvings and decorations are extraordinary," he said.

The equipment normally used by the sculptors of Asat Tribe stone axes, animal teeth and shells. Untik while smoothing jagged edges, they use pig tusks, teeth of certain fish and oysters.

Some of the Asmat inhabiting the remote areas of the coast, build a house on the tops of trees, about 30 feet above the ground. In fact, some are still nomadic life.

One traveler who is interested in the life of the Asmat Michael Clark Rockefeller, son of American millionaires and is also President of Chase Manhattan Bank, David Rockefeller is listed as missing in about September 1961.

At that time, Michael Rockefeller returned to the Asmat after conducting joint expedition of Harvard Peabody Expedition in March 1961, with specific goals to make the documentation and collection of Museum of Primitive Art to New York.

Around mid-September, he crossed the Betsy River estuary is located near the famous village Otsyanep with malignancy inhabitants. In this way, Michael Rockefeller disappeared under mysterious