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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.
An exhaustive scholarly analysis of Olókun, examining divine domains of deep waters and bead wealth, mythological contests, regional gender divergences, and Afro-Atlantic transformations.
Scholarly analysis of Olokun Seniade, the female-associated manifestation of the ocean deity linked to beadmaking, wealth, crown regalia, and sacred water priesthoods in Yoruba and Atlantic traditions.
Archaeological, chemical, and historical evidence for primary glass manufacture and drawn bead production at Ilé-Ifẹ̀ between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries CE.
Archaeological, chemical, and historical evidence of primary glass synthesis and bead manufacture at Igbo Olókun in Ilé-Ifẹ̀ and its regional circulation.