Shipibon.adj.

1805 J. Skinner Present State Peru 446 In the year 1651, Friar Alonzo Caballero proceeded from the Payansos to the Callisecas and Setebos, inhabiting the banks of the Ucayali... These establishments were shortly afterwards attacked by the Sipibos, whose cruelty led them to put all the ecclesiastics to death.

1875 E. Rich tr. P. Marcoy Trav. S. Amer. II. 51 Except for the occur[r]ence which I have just related, nothing remarkable marked our entrance on the territory of the Sipibos, where we found excellent tobacco, which the Indians amused themselves with smoking in the shape of great cigars, ten inches long and very clumsily made.

1922 W. C. Farabee Indian Tribes E. Peru 104 The Sipibo worship the moon as mother of all men.

1927 K. G. Grubb Lowland Indians of Amazonia vi. 84 The Shipibo, Shetebo and Konibo are often grouped together under the name of Chama.

1948 A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xviii. 836 Curiously, a series of primitive forest tribes, such as the Sipibo, in or near lowland interior Peru, still paint their pottery with designs that..are reminiscent of them [sc. Marajó ceramics designs].

1989 Encycl. Brit. X. 747/2 When Spanish missionaries, soldiers, and explorers first contacted the Shipibo in the mid-16th century, they met with hostile and often deadly resistance.

1948 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 14 22/1 In Shipibo there are a number of morphemes that are lexically meaningless.

1964 E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Translating ix. 214 In Shipibo, a language of Peru, one must use the phrase ‘she left the fever’..rather than ‘the fever left her’.

1988 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 33 33 Total reduplication is involved..in Shipibo and Akan.