MS 2008-27 Reverend Jan C. Walker collection of Yapese materials

Scope and Contents

Eight photographs taken by Reverend Jan C. Walker in Yap in 1961; a blank postcard of the first evangelical church in Yap; and a copy of Liebenzell Mission, July-August 1965, Volume 24, Number 4, with a picture of a Yapese man named Moses on the cover and a testimonial on him by Edmund and Elizabeth Kalau in the issue. The eight black and white photographs are of Yapese people, including a local medicine man; Yapese houses; Yapese stone money; and a photograph of a missionary's home. Reverend Walker provided information on the photographs in 2007, which can also be found in the collection

Biographical / Historical

Reverend Jan. C. Walker was a Chaplain in the United States Air Force from 1956-64 and was stationed on the island of Guam from 1960-62. In 1961 he was asked to visit Yap to dedicate a church which been built with the help of Reverend Walker's Guam congregation.

Other Archival Materials

Eleven objects collected by Reverend Walker in Yap are in the Collections Management Division of the Department of Anthropology.