Contemporary Traditional Asmat   culture,part 2

"The Asmat creation story:  Fumeripits creates  People from

Trees"

by Saul Martinez ,2/3/12 pr1, culture and Geography 

source: Caglayan, ph.d Emily."The Asmat". In Heilbrunn Timeline of

Art History. New York: the Metropolitan Museum of

art,2000-.http://www.metuseum.org/toah/hd/asma/hd_asma.htm(octob

er 2004); and Mr Ruben Meza,2012

According to the Asmat tradition:  "Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth, and he also crated the first men's ceremonial house [called] a jeu."

"Fumeripits would spend his days dancing along the beach, but after awhile grew tired of being alone."

" So he chopped down  a number of trees, carved them into human figures , and place them   inside the jeu."

" How ever , since the sculptures were inanimate, Fumeripits was still unhappy.He  then decided to create a drum, and chopped down another tree, hollowed out the center , and stretched a piece of lizard skin over  the top." 

"As he began to drum, the human figures miraclously  came to life, their elbows came unstuck from their knees, and they began to dance.

This is how Fumeripits made people from trees. And the first people were Asmat.