Collector: E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection / Production place: San Gabriel Mission, Los Angeles County, California - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

Start Over Collector E. L. McLeod Memorial Collection Production place San Gabriel Mission, Los Angeles County, California

Hearst Museum object titled Basket, accession number 1-20934, described as Large, bottle-neck, finely coiled jar basket with step pattern in 7 series in spiral order. On the shoulders of the basket between the step spirals are distributed 13 human figures in red and black, said to represent Jesus and the 12 Apostles. So called "Apostolic Basket". Warp is Epicampes (Sporobolus rigens), weft is Willow (Salix). Red pattern is Yucca.