H. B. Nicholson

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H. B. Nicholson
Born 1925
La Jolla, San Diego, California
Died March 2, 2007
Redondo Beach, California
Citizenship United States
Field The Aztecs and Mesoamerica generally
Institutions UCLA

Henry B. Nicholson (1925March 2, 2007) was a prominent scholar of the Aztecs.

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

[edit] Works

  • Two Aztec Wood Idols: Iconographic and Chronologic Analysis (with Rainer Berger; 1968)
  • 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 (2001)

[edit] References

Cordy-Collins, Alana; and 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 93 (2). Paris: Société des Américanistes. ISSN 0037-9174. OCLC 1765786.  (French)
Quiñones Keber, Eloise (2007). "Gifts of the Feathered Serpent: The Life and Career of H. B. Nicholson (1925–2007)". Ancient Mesoamerica 18 (1): pp.3–10. London and New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/S0956536107000132. ISSN 0956-5361. OCLC 21544811.