Traditional Wood Carving Papua, the most famous is the work of the
Asmat carving. For Asmat, wood sculpture is part of everyday life that has been done for generations and become a culture. Kebuadayaan was not only known in Papua and Indonesia, but also well-known throughout the world. Every foreign tourists who visit to Papua, it is not complete if it does not recognize the work of carving Asmat. This they did by buying souvenirs Asmat carving works in a variety of sizes.
Typical Traditional Wood Carving PapuaThe hallmark of Asmat carvings most prominent is a unique pattern and naturalist, which of these patterns will be seen hassle way to make it so make Asmat carving works of high value and very much in demand by foreign tourists who enjoyed the artwork.
Judging from the models, Asmat carving patterns and a variety of 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.
For Asmat, wood carving art is to carve activity that is a tradition and ritual life are closely associated with the spirituality of life and respect for ancestors. When Asmat carve, they do not just make patterns in wood but drain a living spirituality.
Today Suroto, Staff researcher of the Institute for Archaeology Jayapura, said that the tradition of carving Asmat of the famous Asmat need to be proposed to UNESCO as one of the cultural heritage of Papua, Indonesia.
He said again that the sculpture asmat classified as "primitive art". Asmat carving shows the author with special expertise with high feeling beautiful lines and composition. Masterpiece consisting of a variety of carving it appears in the community who hold life in the mud bog.
*Note: UNESCO 2003 Convention establishes a number of characteristics to categorize a culture including the cultural heritage objects.
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