Woman’s Mysteries of a Primitive People: The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria (1915)

Woman’s Mysteries of a Primitive People was written by Dorothy Amaury Talbot (1877-1945) The book concerns the Ibibio of southern Nigeria and focuses mostly on the life of women in that culture. For many years good fortune has granted to my sister and myself the happiness of living amid scenes of indescribable beauty and peoples of peculiar interest. The novelty of being the first white women to visit any particular spot has indeed long worn off by reason of the frequency of the experience, but the thrill of penetrating to places as yet unvisited by any European is still a matter of unmixed joy. Time and again our little party has been so fortunate as to happen upon peoples never studied before, who have been induced to confide to us traditions, beliefs, and legends of unexpected charm.