THE REAL FACT OF ARTS CARVED ASMAT INDONESIA

ASMAT, maybe you ever heard about Asmat that one of tribe in Papua Indonesia. Asmat also famous with arts and culture from Papua. One of arts and culture from Asmat is arts carved Asmat. Indonesia began to recognize the nation carved from the stone age people (Neolithic), around the year 1500 BC. In those days the ancestors of Indonesia has made carvings on stone axes, forged clay or other materials encountered. Motifs and carving craftsmanship of that era are still very simple.

    

Generally patterned geometric form of lines, dots, and arches, with clay, stone, wood, bamboo, leather, and animal horn At times, better known as the Bronze Age, which ranges from the year 500 to 300 BC. Ingredients to make the carving has evolved using materials bronze, gold, silver and others. In making carvings are using cast technology. Motifs used in the Bronze Age was the motive meanders, tumpal, double helical, masks, and animal and human.

    

The most famous arts from Asmat tribe Papua is carving. For the Asmat, woodcarving art is part of everyday life that have been handed down to a culture that is not only known in Papua and Indonesia, but has been all over the world. For every foreign tourist who visited Papua, it feels incomplete if it does not recognize or buy souvenirs carved Asmat works in a variety of sizes.

   

The hallmark of the Asmat tribe is carving a unique pattern and naturalist, which of these patterns will look hassle how to make it so as to make the work of the Asmat carving high value and very much in demand by foreign tourists who like works of art. In terms of the model, Asmat carving patterns and varieties have very many, ranging from sculpture models of humans, animals, boats, panels, shields, drums, eggs Kaswari to pole carving. Asmat usually adopt the experience and environment of everyday life as they are carving patterns, such as trees, boats, animals and people boating, hunting people and others.

Carve is a living tradition and ritual are closely associated with the spiritual life and respect for ancestors. When the Asmat carve, they do not just make a pattern in the wood but drain a living spirituality. There are so many style Asmat carving in Papua. All of it depend of from which side of Asmat tribe came from. The first style is the art of the Asmat Northwest (Northwest Asmat). The shield-shaped oval in this group with a slightly wider bottom and are usually denser than other shields. The head is clearly separated from the other and shaped head turtles or fish. Sometimes there are pictures ancestors in the head, while the body-shaped ornament ferret fly, frog, bird's head horns, and others.

The other one style is Asmat art is East (Citak). Specificity of the art in this group appear to form a shield decoration is usually very large, sometimes up beyond high Asmat people standing upright. Parts of it are not clearly separated from the body armor and are often filled with black stripes or red dots were white. The latter, is a style of Asmat art Brazza River area. The shield on the group's nearly as big and high in group Asmat shields East. The head is also usually separate from the body. Although elbow motif often used to decorate shields, commonly used motifs such as geometry, circles, spirals, and elbows.

If we are in Jakarta and interested in arts and culture and the life of Asmat tribe, we can visit to the National Museum in Central Jakarta. There are several collections of art and cultural objects, a collection of photos, as well as an explanation of Asmat life. Some interesting art objects, which exist in the National Museum's ethnographic collections, including the Asmat boat with a unique shape and the number of boat carving on the body. In addition, there is also a high towering statue Mbis to the walls of the room, and there are a variety of other collections of art and culture