H. B. Nicholson

H. B. Nicholson
Born	(1925-09-05)September 5, 1925 La Jolla, San Diego, California
Died	March 2, 2007(2007-03-02) (aged 81) Redondo Beach, California
Citizenship	United States
Scientific career
Fields	The Aztecs and prehispanic Mesoamerica generally
Institutions	UCLA

Henry Bigger Nicholson (September 5, 1925 – March 2, 2007) who published under the name H.B. Nicholson, was a scholar of the Aztecs. His major scholarly monograph is Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs (2001).

Nicholson died of a heart attack on March 2, 2007.

Publications

Monograph

• Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs Boulder: University Press of Colorado 2001

Articles and encyclopedia entries

• Two Aztec Wood Idols: Iconographic and Chronologic Analysis (with Rainer Berger; 1968)
• "Religion in Pre-Hispanic Central Mexico" In Handbook of Middle American Indians, vol. 10, 395–446, Eds. G. F. Ekholm and Ignacio Bernal, Austin, university oí Texas Press.
• "Eduard Georg Seler, 1849-1922," Handbook of Middle American Indians(HMAI) Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Vol. 13 Part 2. (1973) pp. 348–369.
• "Sahagún’s Primeros Memoriales, Tepepulco", HMAI vol. 13 pp. 207–217.
• "Middle American Ethnohistory: An Overview," HMAI, vol. 15 pp. 487–505.
• Origins of Religious Art & Iconography in Preclassic Mesoamerica (as editor; 1976)
• Pre-Columbian Art from the Land Collection (with Alana Cordy-Collins; 1979)
• Art of Aztec Mexico: Treasures of Tenochtitlan (with Eloise Quiñones Keber; 1983)
• Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology (edited with Eloise Quiñones Keber; 1994)
• "Borgia Group of Pictorial Manuscripts" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures (OEMC), New York: Oxford University Press 2001, vol. 1, pp. 98–101.
• "Feathered Serpent" OEMC, vol. 1, pp. 397–400.
• "Mixteca-Puebla Style" OEMC, vol. 2, pp. 329–330.
• "Bernardino de Sahagún" OEMC, vol. 3, pp. 105–113.
• "Eduard Seler" OEMC, vol. 3, pp. 134–37.
• "Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl" OEMC vol. 3, 246–247.

References

• Cordy-Collins, Alana; Douglas Sharon, eds. (1993). Current Topics in Aztec Studies: Essays in Honor of Dr. H.B. Nicholson. San Diego, CA: San Diego Museum of Man. ISBN 0-937808-58-X. OCLC 29529785.
• Olivier, Guilhem (2007). "Henry B. Nicholson (1925–2007)" (online reproduction). Journal de la Société des américanistes (in French). 93 (2). Paris: Société des Américanistes: 153–171. doi:10.4000/jsa.8233. ISSN 0037-9174. OCLC 1765786.
• Quiñones Keber, Eloise (2007). "Gifts of the Feathered Serpent: The Life and Career of H. B. Nicholson (1925–2007)". Ancient Mesoamerica. 18 (1). London and New York: Cambridge University Press: 3–10. doi:10.1017/S0956536107000132. ISSN 0956-5361. OCLC 21544811.