Zelia Nuttall
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Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and pre-Columbian manuscripts. She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of this type in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall.
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![Feather Piece; Head-dress (Standard) preserved at Ethnographical Museum, Vienna[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Nuttall_1895_Feather-piece.png/1280px-Nuttall_1895_Feather-piece.png)
Feather Piece; Head-dress (Standard) preserved at Ethnographical Museum, Vienna[11]
Zelia Nuttall collected this lithograph, along with others, of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra's royal coronation where she was a guest. The lithographs are currently stored in the Penn Museum archives.
Page 75 from the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. Three Lords in their canoes set off to conquer a city on an islandIn their orbit 1
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Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and pre-Columbian manuscripts. She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of this type in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period. Nuttall can also be credited for being first to ever challenge the prevailing theory of a California landing for Francis Drake's circumnavigation in spite of much adversity. She boldly proposed that Drake had sailed further North into the Pacific Northwest. Numerous northern coast researchers reexamined the few available records as a result.
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