Mathematical and Anthropological Analysis of Northern Luzon Funeral Textile

• Main Authors: De Las Peñas, Ma. Louise Antonette N, Salvador-Amores, Analyn V
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
• Subjects: frieze group; funeral textile; mathematical symmetry; northern Luzon indigenous communities; plane crystallographic group; symmetry group; Mathematics
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/mathematics-faculty-pubs/1; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=mathematics-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

The study presents a mathematical analysis and provides an anthropological perspective of the funeral textile of the indigenous communities in northern Luzon, Philippines. In particular, a symmetry analysis is performed, based on principles of group theory and transformation geometry, on the various...