The following are links to museums and other sources for sling pictures. Most of my sling making research is based on photographs, and by providing these links, I hope to save time for others who want to study slings. I hope to catagorize links to individual picutre eventually. If you find that a link doesn't work, please contact me and I can update the URL.

AMNH Anthropology Division
The American Museum of Natural History has a good collection of slings from around the world. They have nice images.

textiles del MNAAHP
This is the Textile collection of the Museo de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú. They have many fine examples of Ancient South American Slings. Searching is a little difficult, however. First, you have to choose what culture you wish to browse. The default is Chavin. Choosing Inka will find you lots of slings. Once you choose a culture, you can select what type of textile you want to search for. You want to choose Tapiz excentrico from the por tecnia menu and click buscar. You can then browse through the listings to search for slings, keeping in mind that honda is the Spanish word for sling.

Anthropology Collections of the Smithsonian
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has a large number of slings in their collections. They have a lot of sling fragments which are useful for analyzing construaction. Most of the images are not of the best quality, unfortunatly.

Collection Database of the British Museum.
The British Museum has an extensive collection of slings and sling ammunition. They have a quantity of Greek and Roman lead glandes. Their pictures are often high-resulolution and quite clear.
Peabody Museum Collections Online
While it doesn't have a large collection of slings, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology does have some interesting specimens.

The Griffith Institute's Howard Carter Archives.
These are the the photographs of the Tutankhamen excavation. There were four slings found the the tomb. Two of them are in photos P0086 and P0087. These two were (in my opinion) incorectly itentified as a belt. The other two slings are in photo P1324. The sling I worked on is the sling to the right in photo P1324.

Copyright 2009 by Timothy Potter