Eshu

George Chemeche

Eshu The Divine Trickster

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... He

is like a chameleon, like one who can appease as a newborn child.

He is attractive as a crown. ‘One-who-squats-without-defecatingor-urinating.’ That is the name we give to Latopa [Eshu].

His excrement is as large as a palm tree.

He takes a basket to the market to buy palm oil, And it does not leak.

Owaode p.c. 1981 (Yoruba, Sculptures of West Africa, Fagg/Pemberton/Holcombe)

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Eshu Dance Staffs Ila Orangun, Igbomina Wood, cowries, leather straps H. 40�, 101.6 cm Randy Fertel 126

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Eshu Dance Staff Igbomina Wood, cowries, metal H. 25�, 63.5 cm Victor Teicher 205

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Wrist Pendant for Eshu Dance Wood, H. 4 3⁄4”, 12 cm George Chemeche

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Wrist Pendant for Eshu Dance Wood, cowries, leather H. 4�, 10.2 cm George Chemeche

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ISBN 978 185149 735 5

£65.00 / $125.00