Executioner's Sword

Course History

ARTH 82, History of Museums and Collecting, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2012

COLT 73.4, Violence, Ayo Coly, Winter 2015

THEA 23, AAAS 54, Topics in African Theater and Performance, Laura Edmondson, Winter 2015

PSYC 7.03, Why People Believe in Weird Things: Credulity, Science and Pseudoscience in the Study of Human Behavior, John Pfister, Winter 2019

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2021

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2022

PSYC 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2022

Psychological & Brain Sciences 7.03, Science and Pseudoscience, John Pfister, Winter 2023

Psychological & Brain Sciences 7.03 – Why People Believe in Weird Things: Science, Pseudoscience, and Thinking Critically about Human Behavior, John Pfister, Winter 2024

Exhibition History

The Art of Weapons: Selections from the African Collection, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 26, 2014 -March 13, 2016.

Publication History

Ugochukwu C. Nzewi, The Art of Weapons, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2014, checklist no. 41

Provenance

Collected by Robert L. (born LeRoy Robert) Ripley (1890-1949), Mamaroneck, New York, early 20th century (The Ripley's Believe It or Not Collection); given to present collection, 1940.

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