ABSTRACT
CHARLES CLARK WILLOUGHBY (1857-1943)
Charles Clark Willoughby was born in Winchendon, Massachusetts. As a young man he moved to Augusta, Maine, where he became the successful owner of an art store. Both of his hobbies at that time provided an excellent background for his later career. He was a woodworker, specializing in marquetry inlays, and as an amateur archaeologist, he excavated in the nearby shell heaps of Maine. The latter activity brought him into contact with Frederick Ward Putnam, director of the Peabody Museum of Harvard, who in 1892 persuaded him to leave his business and become an assistant in the Department of Anthropology at the Chicago Columbian Exposition. This first professional activity in archaeology produced the studies and drawings which form the basis of this volume. The hand and eye of the artist and craftsman are evident in the drawings, in the careful descriptions of the artifacts, and particularly, in the impulse to experiment with replication of the artifacts in order to better understand the way in which they could have been made.
