Igbo is one of the water-people danced by the Ekine society, characterised in his masquerade as a handsome but idle and good-for-nothing aristocrat, a preening dandy among the owu. Each of the water-spirit plays presents a distinct human or animal character, and Igbo supplies the type of the vain highborn man; his name is that of a water-spirit and is not connected with the neighbouring Igbo people. Like his fellow spirits he is entertained in his turn within the fixed order of the Ekine festival cycle.