American Museum of Asmat Art

3510 Vivian Avenue
Shoreview, MN, 55126

URL : http://www.stthomas.edu/asmat

overview : The Asmat are a semi-nomadic people who inhabit the rain forest and tribal rivers along the southwest coast of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. With one of the most comprehensive Asmat collections in the United States, the museum accomplished its mission through a series of rotating exhibitions presented twice annually in its galleries, through national art tours, extensive public and school educational programs, and by conductiong research on and conserving the objects in its permanent collection.

topics : folk art, tribal, ethnic, rain, forests, rainforests