Art from the Asmat Rainforest

The Asmat are a people who inhabit an isolated rainforest in West Papua, on the world’s second largest island, Papua New Guinea.  A collection of 20 artifacts has been put together, which represent a range of traditional, ceremonial, and daily use objects produced by these master carvers.  A stone-age culture until the middle of the 20th century, the Asmat have struggled to maintain their identity and traditions in the face of an encroaching 21st century world.  A unique relationship between the Asmat, our own Crosier Fathers and Brothers, and the American Museum of Asmat Art makes this exhibit available to your school.  Curricular connections include Oceanic cultures and geography, art projects, rainforest studies, and reflections of physical environment and outside influence in daily life and culture.

Learn more about the people of Papua and the Croiser Fathers and Brothers with links below...

• Learn more about the people and culture of the Asmat.
• Learn more about the Croiser Fathers and Brothers
• Invite a Croiser Father or Brother to come to give an exciting presentation to your parish, school, or group about Papua or our diocesan connections with the people around the world.
• Check out the American Museum of Asmat Art programs for school children.
  Visit the Asmat Musuem in Shoreview, Minnesota
  or call to arrange a guided tour at (651) 287-1132
• Watch a wonderful documentary about the Croiser Fathers and Brothers living and ministering in Papua, available through the Mission Office.

To learn more about
our other mission connections;
return to the Mission Education for Youth Home Page