Ibibion.adj.

1822 J. Adams Sketches Voy. Afr. v. 77 Three-fourths of all the negroes sold at Bonny were Heebos, the remaining fourth was composed of..the Ibbiby.

1890 H. Goldie Calabar i. 13 By far the greater part of the oil exported is produced by the tribes behind, especially by Ibibio.

1905 C. Partridge Cross River Natives ii. 33 The district of Calabar is peopled by..the Efiks, the Ibibios, and the Ekois.

1915 D. A. Talbot Woman's Mysteries of Primitive People xv. 213 Among the Ibibios different funeral rites are prescribed according to age, position, and manner of death.

1919 H. H. Johnston Compar. Study Bantu & Semi-Bantu Lang. I. 814 My information regarding..Ibibiω, and the allied Kwō dialect..has been chiefly obtained from the Rev. Hugh Goldie's Dictionary of the Efik Language.

1925 J. A. MacCulloch Mythol. All Races VII. 111 The head-pad..figures in some curious magical ceremonies of the Ibibio.

1932 Africa V. 503 One West African language, viz. Ibibio, spoken by about three-quarters of a million people in the Calabar province of Southern Nigeria.

1936 J. G. Frazer Aftermath: Suppl. Golden Bough i. 18 Among the Ibibios of Southern Nigeria, ‘old women may not touch soup made in deep pots, lest they receive too much nourishment therefrom, which will cause them to live beyond the allotted span’.

1862 H. Goldie Dict. Efïk Lang. v. p. xlix A few Ibibio words are inserted.

1905 C. Partridge Cross River Natives ii. 43 Most of the native labour is drawn from the Ibibio country.

1958 J. S. Coleman Nigeria i. 31 The Ibo and Ibibio languages belong to different branches of the large Niger–Congo linguistic family.

1960 Times 5 Oct. 18/7 Astonishing..naturalism in the very large Ibibio mask in wood.