Magical Ekeko colorful pattern design.

The measures are 6” inches tall.
Ekeko doll is hand-made in Peru.
Hand Painted.
Materials: Terracotta
 
In the mythology and folklore of Peru, Bolivia and northern Argentina Ekeko is a fortune bearer character that has not lost prestige. It is said that whoever has a "loaded" ekeko will have prosperity and will not want in any basic need (food, roof, etc.).In other areas, people offer him banknotes and/or coins to obtain money, grains for a good harvest, and some food to ensure prosperity in general. Ekeko is also known in other zones of Argentina due to immigration and internal migrations, but there his followers, who adopted him as a superstition more than as a folkloric deity, consider him as some kind of beneficent patron. In art he is depicted as a man with a mustache wearing traditional Andean clothes (especially the poncho) and completely loaded with bags and baskets with grain and food, (compare with the cornucopia of some Greco-Roman deities), household objects, and currency bills, and basically anything that a person is thought to want/need to have a comfortable and prosperous life; he is commonly found as a little statue to be put in some place of the house, preferably a comfortable one, but also as an amulet holding from key rings; modern statues of the god include a circular opening in his mouth to place there a cigarette (better if lit) for Ekeko's pleasure. The latest tradition has the ekeko "smoke" a lit cigarette (hence the rounded mouth) once a year to ensure a full year of prosperity. This statue is made from clay, not plastic, and is from South America. He is adorned with a clay house, car, TV and what resembles a pepper. 4 bags of confetti, a bag of cotton, and a bag of macaroni etc, It is traditional to offer him a cigarette at 5 pm on Tuesday to ensure abundance, profitable business, enough to eat, and general prosperity. You will receive ONE random statue.