History of Sports.
Illustrative concept that explores the history of sports through objects.
Inspiration.
Artifacts related to the history of sports from The Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Marble relief fragment depicting athletic prizes. Roman, 2nd Century CE.
Sling shot with shells. Chimú or Chancay, 14th-15th century.
Terracotta Panathenaic prize amphora. Attributed to a painter of the Kittos Group, ca. 366/365 BCE.
Sword guard (Tsuba) Japanese, 18th century.
Crossbow Bolts. Western or Central European, 15th-17th century.
Stag trophy head, killed by Ned Ross. Horatio Ross, British, born Scotland, ca. 1858.
Crossbow Bolts. Possibly Switzerland, probably 15th-17th century.