Zelia Nuttall

Zelia Nuttall
File:Zelia Nuttall.jpg Zelia Nuttall
Born	September 6, 1857 San Francisco
Died	Casa de Alvarado, Coyoacán, Mexico
Nationality	United States
Occupation	archaeologist
Known for	Mexican archaeology
Spouse(s)	Alphonse Pinart
Children	Nadine Nuttall Laughton
Parent(s)	Robert Kennedy Nuttall, Magdalena Parrott
Relatives	George 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. 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.

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). 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

• 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

References

• Nuttall's life and work was chronicled in Amanda Adams' book Ladies Of The Field
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 

External 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.)
• Works by Zelia Nuttall at Project Gutenberg