The exhibit that had the biggest impact on me at the Metropolitan Museum was the Asmat Mbis Poles. ... I was just amazed in how the Asmats did not believe in natural death, but instead they believed that the death of a member in the tribe was due to some kind of supernatural power of another tribe. ...
After the missions were completed, the tribe would engage in huge feasts and orgies. The poles were said to have some kind of strong like between the dead ancestors and the living tribe members.
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