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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.

Thirty-eight Yorùbá proverbs on beauty and its uses, the danger it attracts, adornment, and the gap between how a person looks and what a person is, presented with the original, a literal gloss, a named translation, and the situation each is spoken in.