Zelia Nuttall
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| Zelia Nuttall | |
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| Born | September 6, 1857 San Francisco |
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| Died | April 12, 1933 Casa de Alvarado, Coyoacán, Mexico |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | archaeologist |
| Known for | Mexican archaeology |
| Spouse | Alphonse Pinart |
| Children | Nadine Nuttall Laughton |
| Parents | Robert Kennedy Nuttall, Magdalena Parrott |
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).[1] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] References
- Tozzer, Alfred M. (1933). "Zelia Nuttall" (PDF). American Anthropologist 35: pp.475–482. doi:.
[edit] Links
- 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.)
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
