Jakarta. The Indonesian Consulate General in New York has secured the return of three smuggled cultural artifacts from US authorities, including items from the Asmat, Dayak, and Batak ethnic groups, a ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening its Galleries of the Arts of Oceania to the public for the first time since 2021. It comes after a major renovation that allowed curators to ...

Mary Rockefeller Morgan at the renovated wing, viewing a Body Mask by an Asmat artist, New Guinea, mid-20th century, an ensemble comprising mulberry fiber, sago palm leaves, wood and pigment.

Appeal by Shaukat Mukadam: Noor’s father appeals to increase the sentences of Zahir Jaffer, Mohammad Iftikhar, and Jan Mohammad, and challenges the acquittals of Zakir Jaffer, Asmat Adamjee ...

The Asmat tribals practice ritual cannibalism and reportedly eat the flesh and brain matter of their slain enemies, as they believe the practice empowers the spirits of their ancestors.

In support of the communities of Asmat regency, South Papua, the Asmat Indonesia Volunteer Foundation hosted a fundraising charity high tea event titled “Love for Asmat – Meniti Hari Menata ...

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People of the Asmat tribe celebrate the Sentani Lake Festival on the island of Papua. The ceremony is performed by village dwellers when members of the villages deliver wares to other villages ...

For those who don't know, the young explorer set out on his second exhibition to the Asmat region alongside Dutch anthropologist René Wassing, intending to make contact with the locals living there.

Research into the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller might prove he met a horrific fate during his time in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea. Born in 1938, he was the son of Nelson A.

While many were quick to assume that person was, indeed, Rockefeller - seeing as he had met with the Asmat tribe previously before capsizing - the man who took the recording did not come to the ...