Zelia
Maria Magdalena Nuttall (September 6, 1857 – April 12, 1933) was an American
archaeologist and anthropologist. Queer Places:
Bedford College, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RE, UK
Casa Alvarado, Avenida Francisco Sosa 383, Santa Catarina, 04010 Coyoacán, CDMX, Mexico
Zelia
Maria Magdalena Nuttall (September 6, 1857 – April 12, 1933) was an American
archaeologist and anthropologist.
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]
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