Originally published as “Focus on the Ethnographic Collections: The Mexican Collections of Zelia Nuttall” by Ira Jacknis Archaeologist and ethnohistorian Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933) is today best-known for her work in finding and reproducing colonial-era Mexican books and maps.  During her lifetime, she seems to have known everybody concerned with anthropology and Mexico’s past. It was … Continue reading Zelia Nuttall