

The basics
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American Mesoamericanist
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Male
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Birth:
5 September 1925(La Jolla)
Death:
2 March 2007(Redondo Beach)
The details
Biography
Introduction
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.
Works
- 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)
- Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs Boulder: University Press of Colorado 2001
- "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.