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Title: Northway Potlatch Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7908; local: APSdigrec_1193; local: 07; local: 01;
Description: "Beginning of song missed in recording. Bill Joe drums; Markle Ewan, Jim McKinley, Ralph Sanford were the chief singers."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Up-the-Line Dance:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7909; local: APSdigrec_1315; local: 07; local: 23;
Description: "Maggy Joe suggested this song. Ralph Sanford says 'Go ahead and sing' in Athabaskan."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Potlatch Song, Dance Song from Cordova:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7902; local: APSdigrec_1307; local: 07; local: 15;
Description: "Identified by Bacille George as Tlingit."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Whitehorse, Yukon Territory song
Identifier(s): audio:7685; APSdigrec_1562; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 14
Description: Song repeated by request Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Southern Tutchone language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Song about Seagull (nAlbei) or Crow (sArani) eating something dead, caribou, fish, (dead man?):; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7905; local: APSdigrec_1304; local: 07; local: 12;
Description: "Variously identified as a song about Seagull (nAlbei) or Crow (sArani) eating something dead, caribou, fish, (dead man?).... It is apparently an Eyak song, in which the bird is addressed as 'grandfather' by the appropriate sib (?). Chistochina people in 1960 said it was sung by guests after a potlatch meal. 'We eat just like Crow and Seagull. We copy them.' (Possibly the bird is interchangeable, depending on which moiety is guest)."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Eyak language; Eyak Indians--Music; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Northway Potlatch Song
Identifier(s): audio:7026; APSdigrec_1119; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 07
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:7044; APSdigrec_1124; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 12
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena dance
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Tanana River Song
Identifier(s): audio:6975; APSdigrec_1121; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 09
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Ground Squirrel Song
Identifier(s): audio:7048; APSdigrec_1117; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 05
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Wake Up and Come On song
Identifier(s): audio:7007; APSdigrec_1126; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 14
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena dance
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Cooper River kIndjui Song
Identifier(s): audio:6993; APSdigrec_1113; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 01
Description: Song explained by Jim McKinley as a kIndjui (Tlingit) dance song from Copper River.; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Tetlin Worry Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7892; local: APSdigrec_1313; local: 07; local: 21;
Description: "Tetlin Worry Song (according to Bacille George). Maggie Joe started the singing. 'That's the biggest dance of them all.' The song belonged to Nancy George's cousin, a woman named May or xAtnilnan. 'My daddy, come back to your country. Oh my daddy.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Up-the-line dance:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7870; local: APSdigrec_1312; local: 07; local: 20;
Description: "Recording missed initial two beats. Identified by Bacille George as an Up-the-line dance."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Frank Tanacross' Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7029; local: APSdigrec_1127; local: 09; local: 15;
Description: Song composed by the singer for his sister's funeral potlatch.; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tanacross language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Timberwolf Song
Identifier(s): audio:7031; APSdigrec_1118; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 06
Description: "FdeL asks for wolf song, used to call moose.... Oscar Craig explains that song is engi (taboo). Old-timers don't like to hear it. F thanks them - 'tcInan.' Craig says: 'Really tcInan.' According to informants at Chistochina this was a song, sung to make a peace after a war which the people don't like to recall."; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--History; Taboo
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Old Up-the-line Dance Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7874; local: APSdigrec_1306; local: 07; local: 14;
Description: "Identified by Bacille George 8/28/58 as an old Up-the-line Dance Song, which he had heard as a kid at a big potlatch at Upper Tonsina, when his father gave away $3000."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7075; local: APSdigrec_1128; local: 09; local: 16;
Description: "Jim McKinley explains: 'Same thing again. Frank's boy died at Tanana River. His boy make it himself and he die.'"; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tanacross language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6997; local: APSdigrec_1129; local: 09; local: 17;
Description: "Jim McKinley explains; 'At Mentasta, 2-3 womens. Their father died one time and they make that song. All die.'"; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Long Ago Song
Identifier(s): audio:6974; APSdigrec_1122; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 10
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: GoodTime Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:7063; APSdigrec_1123; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 11
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena dance
Date: 1954-08-05