In the jungle there are wild pig, the furry, opossumlike cuscus, and the ostrichlike cassowary. It’s teeming with shrimp and crabs and fish and clams. Everything you could possibly need is here. President and Fellows of Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology Īsmat is, in its way, a perfect place.
The Baliem Valley was a “magnificent vastness” in Rockefeller’s eyes, and its people were “emotionallly expressive.” But Asmat proved to be “more remote country than what I have ever seen.”
