阿斯馬特族是新幾內亞人數約 70,000 的族群，居住在印度尼西亞巴布亞省西南岸毗鄰阿拉弗拉海面積約 19,000 平方公里的島嶼上，以木刻傳統聞名於世。

雖然過去數十年間現代社會對阿斯馬特族的影響增加，但他們仍與現代社會疏離，大部分重要的文化傳統得以延續。



參考資料



外部連結


* Online Bibliography of Asmat Resources

* Asmat Art in the Michael C. Rockefeller Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Asmat Art Gallery

* American Museum of Asmat Art

* Asmat Program, Indo-Pacific Conservation Alliance

* Tribe Goes High-Tech to Fight for Rain Forest Home, National Geographic Online article （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Islanders in Indonesia Fear Plunder of "Magic" Trees, National Geographic Online article （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Works of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, Metropolitan Museum of Art （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* New York Times Review of "Sky Above, Mud Below" （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* The Cultural Correlates of Warfare Among the Asmat of South-West New Guinea, PhD Dissertation, 1967 （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Asmat Art at the Holmes Museum of Anthropology

* Films about the Asmat produced by the Holmes Museum of Anthropology （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）

* Oleg Aliev's expeditions: the Asmat; photos, documentary films （頁面存檔備份，存於網際網路檔案館）



延伸閱讀


* Eyde, David Bruener. (1967). Cultural Correlates of Warfare Among the Asmat of South-West New Guinea, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, Yale University.

* Gerbrands, Adrian A. (1967) _Wow-Ipits: Eight Asmat woodcarvers of New Guinea_. The Hague and Paris: Mouton and Company.

* Knauft, Bruce M. (1993). _South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, Dialectic_. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

* Konrad, Gunter, Ursula Konrad, and Tobias Schneebaum. (1981). _Asmat: Life with the Ancestors_. Glashutten, West Germany: Freidhelm Bruckner Publishers.

* Konrad, Gunter and Ursula, eds. (1996). _ASMAT, Myth and Ritual, The Inspiration of Art_. Venice, Italy: Errizo Editrice.

* Petocz, Ronald G. (1989). _Conservation and Development in Irian Jaya_. Leiden: E.J. Brill.

* Rockefeller, Michael Clark and Adrian A. Gerbrands. (1967). _The Asmat of New Guinea: The Journal of Michael Clark Rockefeller_. New York: Museum of Primitive Art.

* Saulnier, Tony. (1963). _Headhunters of Papua_. New York: Crown Publishers.

* Schneebaum, Tobias. (1985). _Asmat Images: From the Collection of the Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress_. Agats, Irian Jaya: Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.

* Schneebaum, Tobias. Where the Spirits Dwell. Grove Press. 1988. ISBN 0-8021-0019-8.

* Smidt, Dirk A.M., ed. (1993). _Asmat Art: Woodcarvings of Southwest New Guinea_. With contributions by Adrian A. Gerbrands, _et al._ Singapore: Periplus Editions, in association with the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden.

* Trenkenschuh, Frank A., ed. (1970-1981) _Asmat Sketchbook: Volume 1-8_ Agats: Asmat Museum of Culture and Progress.

* Van der Zee, Pauline, (1996) _Etsjopok: avenging the ancestors. The Asmat bisj poles and a proposal for a morphological method_. Working Papers in Ethnic Art 8 (University of Ghent, Department of Ethnic Art). Ghent.

* Van der Zee, Pauline. (2007). _Bisj-poles: Sculptures from the Rain Forest_. Amsterdam: KIT Publishers.

* Zegwaard, Gerard. "Headhunting Practices of Netherlands New Guinea", in _American Anthropologist_, no. 61 (December 1959): 1020-41.