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Contemporary Traditional Culture, part 2" The Asmat Creation Story: Fumeripits creates People from
Trees"
By: dewen yu, January 31,2012 Period 4, Culture and Geography
Source: Caglayan, Ph.D., Emily, "The Asmat". In Helibrunn
Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000-,
http://www.metromuseum.org/toah/hd/asma/hd_asma.htm
( October 2004); and Mr. Ruben Meza,2012
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According to Asmat tradition: " Fumeripits was the first being to exist on earth, and he also created the first
men's ceremonial house called a jeu."
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Fumeripits would spend his days dancing along the beach, but after awhile grew tired of being alone.
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So he chopped down a number of trees carved them into human figures, and placed them inside the jeu.
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However, 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.
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As he began to play the drum, the human figures miraculously came to life, their elbows came unstuck
from their knees, and they began to dance.
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This is how Fumeripits made people from trees. And the first people were Asmat.