Zelia Nuttall
Zelia Nuttall | |
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 Zelia Nuttall | |
| Born | September 6, 1857 |
| Died | April 12, 1933 (aged 75) |
| Nationality | United States |
| Occupation | archaeologist |
| Known for | Mexican archaeology |
| Spouse(s) | Alphonse Pinart, div. 1888 |
| 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 in San Francisco in 1857 to Irish father Dr. Robert Kennedy Nuttall and Mexican-American mother 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. During Nuttall’s first trip to Mexico in 1884 with her family, she worked for the National Museum of Anthropology, and collected terracotta heads from San Juan Teotihuacan.([3]). This was the foundation of the publication which would lead her into prominence, the "Terra Cotta Heads of Teotihuacan" for the American Journal of Archaeology (1886).[[4]] 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 (1886). The Terracotta Heads of Teotihuacan. Baltimore, American Journal of Archaeology. OCLC 25124813
- Nuttall, Zelia (1888). Standard or head-dress? An historical essay on a relic of ancient Mexico. Cambridge, Mass., Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology. OCLC 313707016
- 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ (Peabody Museum, Harvard), 1902
- ^ Nuttall, Zelia; Bowditch, Charles P; Burlen, Robert; Hoffman, Wilhelm; Mead, Frances Harvey; Putnam, F. W; Röhl, Adolar; Whitehead, Gilbert; Bedford College (1886). Nuttall, Zelia, papers 1886-1912.
- ^ "Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall | American archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2018-03-09.
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). 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. Archived from the original (PDF online reproduction) on 2008-10-31.
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- 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: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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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
- Works by or about Zelia Nuttall at Internet Archive
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- 1857 births
- 1933 deaths
- American anthropologists
- American archaeologists
- American Mesoamericanists
- Women Mesoamericanists
- American emigrants to Mexico
- Mixtec scholars
- Mesoamerican archaeologists
- Mesoamerican anthropologists
- 19th-century Mesoamericanists
- 20th-century Mesoamericanists
- American science writers
- Writers from San Francisco
- Scientists from California
- Women archaeologists
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- 20th-century archaeologists