{"id":5606,"date":"2021-04-01T18:39:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/?page_id=5606"},"modified":"2021-04-01T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:38:15","slug":"crown-of-a-yoruba-sovereign","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/tentoonstelling\/kronen-collectie\/kronen\/crown-of-a-yoruba-sovereign\/","title":{"rendered":"Crown of a Yoruba sovereign"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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For the sovereigns of the Yoruba people (West Africa), crowns decorated with red coral, brown\/red agate or jasper \u2013 such as the Ade Eru or \u201cdanger-crown\u201d of the Okuku dynasty \u2013 were sometimes reserved for wearing in time of war. Because of the conspicuous colour, not only was it then fairly easy to recognise the king as leader, but according to tradition he was thus also protected against arrows and bullets!<\/p>

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Crown of a Yoruba sovereign For the sovereigns of the Yoruba people (West Africa), crowns decorated with red coral, brown\/red agate or jasper \u2013 such as the Ade Eru or \u201cdanger-crown\u201d of the Okuku dynasty \u2013 were sometimes reserved for wearing in time of war….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2896,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5606\/revisions\/5691"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondmuseum.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}