MS 2008-27 Reverend Jan C. Walker collection of Yapese materials
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2008-27
name: label: Creator
content: Walker, Jan C., Reverend
label: Creator
content: Liebenzell Mission of U.S.A.
place: label: Place
content: Yap (Micronesia)
topic: label: Topic
content: Houses
label: Topic
content: Money
label: Topic
content: Missionaries
label: Topic
content: Shamans
creator: label: Creator
content: Walker, Jan C., Reverend
label: Creator
content: Liebenzell Mission of U.S.A.
culture: label: Culture
content: Yapese (Micronesian people)
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Reverend Jan.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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 8 Photographs (1 postcard; 1 pamphlet; and 1 document)
unitdate: label: Date
content: bulk 1961 and 1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2008-27
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: Eleven objects collected by Reverend Walker in Yap are in the Collections Management Division of the Department of Anthropology.