The Kyoto University Museum collection: Glass Film Plate Photographs about Field Research on Okinawa, 1932.

Records of field researches about the ruins of the Sachihija shell midden, Ryukyu tiles, Ryukyu magatamas (comma-shaped beads) by the Laboratory of Archaeology, Kyoto Imperial University in June 1932. The collection also include group photographs taken in a visit to Okinawa and Kyushu by the Laboratory of Japanese History at the university in October 1932. The photographs in the former records are supposed to be by a lecturer Sadahiko Shimada at Faculty of Letters, Kyoto Imperial University, and a part of the photographs were used in his articles. These valuable materials show Okinawa in the beginning of Showa period.