Zelia Nuttall

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name=Zelia Nuttall


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birth_date=September 6, 1857
birth_place=San Francisco
death_date=April 12, 1933
death_place=Casa de Alvarado, Coyoacán, Mexico
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nationality=United States
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known_for=Mexican archaeology
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occupation=archaeologist
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spouse=Alphonse Pinart
children=Nadine Nuttall Laughton
parents=Robert Kennedy Nuttall, Magdalena Parrott
relatives=George Nuttall
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Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall (September 6, 1857 – April 12, 1933) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, born at San Francisco, who specialised in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican manuscripts and the pre-Aztec culture in Mexico. She traced the Mixtec codex now called the Codex Zouche-Nuttall and wrote the introduction to its first facsimile publication (Peabody Museum, Harvard), 1902.

She was educated in France, Germany, and Italy, and at Bedford College, London. She first came into prominence on the publication of her work on the "Terra Cotta Heads of Teotihuacan" in the "American Journal of Archaeology" (1886).New International Encyclopedia The following year she became an honorary special assistant of the Peabody Museum, and in 1908 was named honorary professor of the National Museum of Mexico.

Works

* "The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations" (1901)
* "Books of the Life of Ancient Mexicans" (1903)
* "Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans" (1904)
* "New Light on Drake: Documents Relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation 1577-1580" (1914)

References

: cite book |author=aut|Chiñas, Beverley Newbold |year=1989 |chapter=Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall |editor=Ute Gacs, Aisha Khan, Jerrie McIntyre, and Ruth Weinberg (eds.) |title=Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies |edition=Illini Books edition, Reprint of Westport, CT: Greenwood Press original [©1988] . |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |pages=pp.269–274|isbn=0-252-06084-9 |oclc=19670310: cite journal |author=aut|Tozzer, Alfred M. |authorlink=Alfred Tozzer |year=1933 |month=July–September |title=Zelia Nuttall |url=http://www.aaanet.org/sections/gad/history/067nuttallobit.pdf |format=PDF online reproduction |journal=American Anthropologist New Series |location=Arlington, VA |publisher=American Anthropological Association and affiliated societies |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=pp.475–482 |doi=10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070 |issn=0002-7294 |oclc=1479294

External links

* [http://www.americanethnography.com/article_sql.php?id=40 Zelia Nuttall's obituary] by Alfred M. Tozzer on "American Ethnography." (The obituary originally appeared in "American Anthropologist" July - September, 1933, New Series 35(3): 475-482.)

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