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The beaded crown and what it does constitutionally, why the king's face is veiled, the birds at its apex, the beads themselves and their trade history, and the men's workshops that made them.
How ordinary Yoruba men and women wear beads and metal jewellery, what waist beads and colour-coded devotional strands mean on a non-royal body, and the sumptuary lines that separate commoner, chief, and king.