Henry Bigger Nicholson (September 5, 1925 – March 2, 2007) who published under the name H.B. Nicholson, was a scholar of the

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s. His major scholarly monograph is ''Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs'' (2001).Dr. H.B. Nicholson - ‘Grandfather’ of Aztecs Studies - Mexicolore
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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.

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References

* * * 1925 births 2007 deaths University of California, Los Angeles faculty American Mesoamericanists Historians of Mesoamerica Historians of Mesoamerican art Scholars of the Aztecs 20th-century Mesoamericanists University of California, Berkeley alumni Harvard University alumni {{mesoamerica-stub