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Searching Widipedia for "Asmat" tribe, I found this reference to Jan Carstenz----a Dutch trader.
I wonder of his connection to Pieter Carstenzen?
"Until the 1950s, their remote and harsh location isolated the Asmat from other peoples. It was not until the mid-20th century that they came into regular contact with outsiders. Initially, the Asmat had a reputation as headhunters and cannibals, and were left undisturbed.
The first apparent sighting of the Asmat people by explorers was from the deck of a ship led by a Dutch trader, Jan Carstenz in the year 1623. Captain James Cook and his crew were the first to actually land in Asmat on September 3, 1770 (near what is now the village of Pirimapun). According to the journals of Captain Cook..."
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