One of a Kind!
There’s nothing quite like a ripped grocery bag to ruin your day. Luckily this woven basket, from the Bolgatana region of Ghana, is so sturdy you could probably buy out your local watermelon vendor and not have to worry. Made from the famously durable Veta vera grass, we named it after the mythical spider Anansi—a great weaver of both webs and stories.
Perhaps the most prominent figure in West African folklore, Anansi is the God of stories, having received them from the Sky God Nyame as a reward for cleverly completing tasks that the latter had set for him. A gre... Read More
Perhaps the most prominent figure in West African folklore, Anansi is the God of stories, having received them from the Sky God Nyame as a reward for cleverly completing tasks that the latter had set for him. A great trickster, Anansi appears alternately as a spider and a man, and many tales involve him trying to trick people for his own benefit, only to have his devious machinations backfire. Having begun as an oral tradition amongst the Ashanti people in Ghana, Anansi stories quickly spread to other Akan groups, and eventually across the Atlantic to New World via the slave trade, where he was adopted as a symbol of resistance and survival. Read Less
Diameter 13.5"
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