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Nuttall was born at [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] in 1857 to Dr. Robert Kennedy Nuttall and Magdalena Parrott<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ladies of the field : early women archaeologists and their search for adventure|last=Adams|first=Amanda|publisher=Greystone Book|year=2010|isbn=9781553654339|location=Vancouver ; Berkeley [Calif.]|pages=65-87|quote=|via=}}</ref>. She specialised in [[pre-Columbian]] [[Mesoamerica]]n 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.<ref>([[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology|Peabody Museum]], Harvard), 1902</ref>
Nuttall was born at [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] in 1857 to Dr. Robert Kennedy Nuttall and Magdalena Parrott<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Ladies of the field : early women archaeologists and their search for adventure|last=Adams|first=Amanda|publisher=Greystone Book|year=2010|isbn=9781553654339|location=Vancouver ; Berkeley [Calif.]|pages=65-87|quote=|via=}}</ref>. She specialised in [[pre-Columbian]] [[Mesoamerica]]n 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.<ref>([[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology|Peabody Museum]], Harvard), 1902</ref>


She was educated in [[France]], [[Germany]], and [[Italy]], and at [[Bedford College (London)|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). She was appointed Special Assistant of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard, and was named Honorary Professor of Archaeology at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico<ref name=":0" />.
She was educated in [[France]], [[Germany]], and [[Italy]], and at [[Bedford College (London)|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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zelia-Maria-Magdalena-Nuttall|title=Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall|last=|first=|date=2016|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|publisher=|access-date=11/15/2016}}</ref>. She was appointed Special Assistant of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard, and was named Honorary Professor of Archaeology at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico<ref name=":0" />.


She was the basis for [[D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence]]'s character Mrs. Norris in his novel [[The Plumed Serpent]]<ref name=":0" />.
She was the basis for [[D. H. Lawrence|D.H. Lawrence]]'s character Mrs. Norris in his novel [[The Plumed Serpent]]<ref name=":0" />.

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Zelia Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall
BornSeptember 6, 1857
San Francisco
DiedApril 12, 1933(1933-04-12) (aged 75)
Casa de Alvarado, Coyoacán, Mexico
NationalityUnited States
Occupationarchaeologist
Known forMexican archaeology
SpouseAlphonse Pinart
ChildrenNadine Nuttall Laughton
Parent(s)Robert Kennedy Nuttall, Magdalena Parrott
RelativesGeorge Nuttall

Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall (September 6, 1857 – April 12, 1933) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist.

Life

Nuttall was born at San Francisco in 1857 to Dr. Robert Kennedy Nuttall and Magdalena Parrott[1]. She 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.[2]

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)[3]. She was appointed Special Assistant of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard, and was named Honorary Professor of Archaeology at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico[1].

She was the basis for D.H. Lawrence's character Mrs. Norris in his novel The Plumed Serpent[1].

Works

  • Nuttall, Zelia (1891). The atlatl or spear-thrower of the ancient Mexicans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. OCLC 3536622.
  • Nuttall, Zelia (1901) [1901]. The fundamental principles of Old and New World civilizations : a comparative research based on a study of the Ancient Mexican religious, sociological and calendrical systems. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. OCLC 219742748.
  • Nuttall, Zelia (1983) [1903]. The book of the life of the ancient Mexicans : containing an account of their rites and superstitions : an anonymous Hispano-Mexican manuscript preserved at the Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Florence, Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press. OCLC 10719260.
  • Nuttall, Zelia (1904) [1904]. A Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Museum. OCLC 2991502.
  • Nuttall, Zelia (1910). The island of Sacrificios. New Era Printing Co., 1910, 39pp. (Reprinted from: American Anthropologist, vol. XII, no. 2, April–June 1910.) OCLC 29606682
  • Nuttall, Zelia; Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa; Nuno da Silva (1914) [1914]. New Light on Drake: Documents Relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation 1577-1580. London: Hakluyt Society. OCLC 2018572.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Adams, Amanda (2010). Ladies of the field : early women archaeologists and their search for adventure. Vancouver ; Berkeley [Calif.]: Greystone Book. pp. 65–87. ISBN 9781553654339.
  2. ^ (Peabody Museum, Harvard), 1902
  3. ^ "Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2016. Retrieved 11/15/2016. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |access-date= (help)

References

Chiñas, Beverley Newbold (1989). "Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall". In Ute Gacs; Aisha Khan; Jerrie McIntyre; Ruth Weinberg (eds.). Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies (Illini Books edition, Reprint of Westport, CT: Greenwood Press original [©1988]. ed.). Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 269–274. ISBN 0-252-06084-9. OCLC 19670310.
Tozzer, Alfred M. (July–September 1933). "Zelia Nuttall" (PDF online reproduction). American Anthropologist New Series. 35 (3). Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association and affiliated societies: 475–482. doi:10.1525/aa.1933.35.3.02a00070. OCLC 1479294.
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