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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.

A comprehensive scholarly treatment of Ọ̀ṣun, the Yoruba divinity of fresh waters, fertility, wealth, and sovereignty, examining her theology, oríkì, priesthood, and transatlantic developments.

Archaeological evidence, furnace typologies, blacksmith social status under Ogun, and hollow lost-wax casting metallurgy in the Yoruba region.