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Tools and Woodworking

Splint gauge, ca. 1900

Splint gauge, ca. 1900

Item 23464 info
Hudson Museum, Univ. of Maine

Each artistic tradition utilized a specific woodworking tool kit.

Makers of fancy baskets used split gauges and wooden blocks or molds to ensure that the baskets they produced were a uniform size and shape.