Zelia Nuttall

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Zelia Nuttall was an American archaeologist and anthropologist renowned for her pioneering work on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican manuscripts and cultures.

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instanceOf Mesoamericanist
anthropologist
archaeologist
human
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1857-09-06
dateOfDeath 1933-04-12
discovered Codex Magliabechiano (brought to scholarly attention)
linked to: Codex Boturini

Codex Nuttall (introduced to scholarship)
linked to: Codex Nuttall
educatedAt Bedford College, London
linked to: Bedford College

Prospect Hill School
employer Harvard University (associated researcher)
linked to: Harvard affiliates

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
father Robert Kennedy Nuttall
fieldOfWork Mesoamerican archaeology
codicology
ethnohistory
pre-Columbian studies
hasWorkLocation Mexico
United States of America
knownFor research on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican manuscripts
study of Mixtec codices
work on Aztec and Maya cultures
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
French
German
Spanish
memberOf American Antiquarian Society
American Philosophical Society
mother Rose Merrill
notableFor pioneering role as a woman in American archaeology
notableWork A Penitential Rite of the Ancient Mexicans
Codex Nuttall
The Fundamental Principles of New and Old World Civilizations
The Terracotta Heads of Teotihuacan
occupation anthropologist
archaeologist
ethnologist
placeOfBirth San Francisco, California, United States of America
placeOfDeath Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico
linked to: Coyoacán
publishedIn American Journal of Archaeology
Journal of American Folklore
Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology
residence Coyoacán, Mexico
linked to: Coyoacán

San Francisco, California
linked to: San Francisco
sexOrGender female
studied Aztec manuscripts
linked to: Aztec codices

Maya iconography
Mixtec codices

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Codex Nuttall namedAfter Zelia Nuttall