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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.

Thirty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on the crown, the throne, the palace and the offices around them, on what a king owns and what he cannot forbid, and on how a person is placed on a throne or kept off one, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.

The sacred conical beaded crown of the Yoruba monarch, examining its physical construction, metaphysical architecture, constitutional status, and museum provenance.

A structural and historical disambiguation of Yoruba royal, territorial, and collegiate titles, contrasting indigenous constitutional orders with the flattening umbrella term Chief.