These included basket-weaving, pottery making, woodworking and iron-working.
"The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America"
Norman Coombs
Bruce was a woodworking teacher at the high school and later he moved to Santa Rosa, California to teach there.
"The Biography of a Rabbit"
Roy Benson, Jr.
The inference is that such a tool form was already a familiar one among the woodworking trades in the United States.
"Woodworking Tools 1600-1900"
Peter C. Welsh