Polyhedron and cultural value in the Kalinga Heirloom Beads (Bongey)

Kalinga Heirloom Beads (bongey) are intriguing cultural items of beauty and memory while Kalinga bead weaving is a phenomenally rich medium for creating mathematical art in three dimensions (polyhedron); thus, this paper was primarily conceived to provide better understanding of the characteristics of Kalinga heirloom beads as to its geometrical shape and size employing the descriptive ethnographic approach. The common beads identified are the Adchongan, Carnelian Beads, Paraggi or Chumat, Jar Beads or Buyod, Pilampalay, and Impit. Moreover, the results underscore that Kalinga beads possess different colors in one bead formation though some are simple and plain. The shapes of the beads possess a tri-dimensional figures either polyhedron or non-polyhedron such as round, cylindrical, spherical, and rectangular.