H. B. Nicholson

Henry Bigger Nicholson (September 5, 1925 – March 2, 2007) 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 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.