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IbibioPeople of southeastern Nigeria. Their language, Ibibio, is a Benue-Congo language of the Niger-Congo family. The Ibibio, numbering about three million, are mainly rainforest cultivators. Lineage heads serve as guardians of ancestral shrines. The secret society is a prominent feature of Ibibio culture. The Ibibio are noted for their wood sculptures of ancestor figures (ekpu). |
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There are exceptional pieces, such as Yoruba gelede masks and ibeji figures, Ekoi and Ibibio masks and statues, and Cameroonian hats, among the West African selections. The Aro people, an amalgam of several Igbo, Ibibio, and Cross River ethnic elements, first came together in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century to fight a war against a group of Ibibio people. Many of these masks are in the style of the Ibibio carving center Ikot Ekpene, although they may actually be locally made. |
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