[Illustration: Omone, son of Chief Benebo of Buguma, in the costume of the Peri play] SOME NIGERIAN FERTILITY CULTS BY P. AMAURY TALBOT RESIDENT, NIGERIA OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD 1927 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO. LTD. THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, GLASGOW. PREFACE The facts collected here are almost exclusively such as came to my notice in the course of the ordinary administrative work in Degama Division, to which I was posted in June, 1914. The region is mainly inhabited by sections of the two great tribes of Ibo and Ijaw. A full description of these will be given later, but it appeared best to issue without further delay this little monograph, dealin…
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