H. B. Nicholson


Henry Bigger Nicholson who published under the name H.B. Nicholson, was a scholar of the Aztecs. He was a professor at UCLA in the Department of Anthropology where he taught courses in Ethnohistory, Aztec Archaeology, and Maya Archaeology. His major scholarly monograph is Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs.
Nicholson died of a heart attack on March 2, 2007.

Publications

Monograph

Articles and encyclopedia entries

  • Two Aztec Wood Idols: Iconographic and Chronologic Analysis
  • "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 ''Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Vol. 13 Part 2. 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
  • Pre-Columbian Art from the Land Collection
  • Art of Aztec Mexico: Treasures of Tenochtitlan
  • Mixteca-Puebla: Discoveries and Research in Mesoamerican Art and Archaeology
  • "Borgia Group of Pictorial Manuscripts" in Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, 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.