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Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People, by D. Amaury Talbot, [1915], at sacred-texts.com


LIST OF PLATES

"FATTING-HOUSE" WOMEN

Frontispiece

 

FACING PAGE

TYPES OF IBO WOMEN

4

CHIEF DANIEL HENSHAW, WITH HIS FAMILY

8

A HUNTING SCENE

12

IBIBIO CHIEFS, WITH ATTENDANTS

12

A JUJU SHRINE, WITH JUJU LEAVES IN THE FOREGROUND

16

A BEACH ON WHICH TWINS WERE FORMERLY OFFERED UP

24

THE PATH OVER THE MAGIC WATER WHICH SHRANK UNDERGROUND TO AVOID THE POLLUTION OF A TWIN WOMAN

28

ORON MAN WITH TWINS WHOSE LIVES HE SAVED

30

NDIYA BEACH

32

VIEW ON THE CROSS RIVER, IN THE EKET DISTRICT

38

AN IBOIBO MARKET

48

A HIGH IDIONG PRIEST

52

CLIMBING PALMS, "IN WHICH DWELLS THE SOUL OF A WOMAN"

56

AN IBIBIO GIRL, WITH WAIST BEADS

64

JUJU "IMAGE" WITH MASK AND DRESS OF WOVEN FIBRE

66

A TYPICAL SACRED POOL IN IBIBIO LAND

76

JUJU TREE OF THE COMPOUND SHOWN IN THE BACKGROUND

80

FATTING-HOUSE GIRLS AFTER THE FIRST TIME OF SECLUSION (Mbobi)

84

"FATTING-HOUSE" WOMEN

88

IKOTOBO MARKET-PLACE

96

A TOWN PLAYGROUND

104

POOL OF ISEMIN, TO WHICH THE WOMEN GO IN PROCESSION NAKED AT DAWN

108

 

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FACING PAGE

SHRINE OF ISEMIN

110

TYPE OF ROAD IN THE EKET DISTRICT

114

EKOI WOMAN AND GIRLS FROM NCHOPAN

116

A TYPICAL EGBO HOUSE

118

AN IBO WOMAN

118

JUJU TO WHICH HUMAN VICTIMS ARE OFFERED UP

120

CHIEF OKONNOR OF IKOTOBO

128

A NIGERIAN LANDSCAPE: MUD FLATS LEFT DRY BY THE TIDE

130

AN IBIBIO CHIEF

130

A BREWER OF LOVE PHILTRES

142

JUJU ITA BRINYAN

146

A JUJU WHICH PROTECTS A FAMILY FROM WITCHCRAFT

162

GULLY DOWN WHICH THE SUSPECTED WITCH WAS THROWN

170

LEAF "IMAGE," IN A JUJU "PLAY"

176

A RIVER DISCOVERED BY p. A. TALBOT

184

EGBO "IMAGES"

192

THE "MOTHER OF GHOSTS AND DEVILS"

200

TYPE OF EKOI WOMAN

208

A WOMAN'S MEMORIAL

216

PATH NEAR AKAIYA, PASSING THROUGH "THE FOREST OF THOSE WHO MAY NOT BE BURIED

220

WATER LILIES ON A CREEK DISCOVERED BY p. A. TALBOT

232

 


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