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Title: Song for the Thunderbird Screen
Identifier(s): audio:6863; APSdigrec_0602; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04
Description: "Minnie Johnson explains [that this song] was composed in Tlingit by go.snA', and sung by Frank Italio, q'At'axítci."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Peace Song for Mrs. Situk Jim; to teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6901; APSdigrec_0998; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 10
Description: "Mrs. Situk Jim, Xosal-tla, was miniie's older half-sister. She was taken as peace-officer at the time her son killed Jenny Jack's mother. Mrs. Situk Jim died in 1916. The song was composed by Blind Sampson."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Song of the Slave, gucdutin
Identifier(s): audio:6972; APSdigrec_1049; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 11
Description: "Minnie introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed by her mother's father's slave, gocdutin. He gave his master's sib, the teqwedi, the song and the face-paint pattern he used when he escaped. Cf. Swanton Song 68."; Recording ends with identification song and previously recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indian slaves--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-07

Title: Love Song composed by X'adanek' for his wife; teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6905; APSdigrec_0993; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Description: Recording begins with Charley White introducing the song in Tlingit, "explaining that his father used to like drink, and also liked teqwedi-yAtx'i as much as liquor. [X'adanek' died in 1888.]"; Sung together by Charley White and miniie Johnson.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Love songs
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Olaf Abraham's Song, to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6921; APSdigrec_0997; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Description: "[Song] was composed in 1946 when Olaf Abraham's brother-in-law, Young George Bremner, was drowned; and when his former wife had to go to the hospital for an operation." Ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Song in Tlingit about the Drowning in the Aiyan River
Identifier(s): audio:6847; APSdigrec_0616; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Song, composed by Raven and sung to Killerwhales
Identifier(s): audio:6851; APSdigrec_0612; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character)
Date: 1952-08-13

Title: Continuation of Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:6849; APSdigrec_0606; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Description: Frank Italio also identified as CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.'
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: The Song of the Beaver of the Kalix Kagwantan
Identifier(s): audio:6846; APSdigrec_0623; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Beavers--Folklore; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1952-09-13

Title: Explanation of Thunderbird Origin Story; Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6850; APSdigrec_0600; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: "Frank explains Thunderbird Origin Story in Tlingit. At [approx. 2:45] Minnie Johnson urges Frank Italio to sing. Mourning soung for go.snA' with rapid beat of cane."; Correction made by collector on later recording that original identification of the language of the song--referred to as "yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language)"--was likely misidentified as Eyak and is instead likely to be "in some dialect of Athabaskan." Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit mythology; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Three Snatches of Mourning Song for Lituya Drowning
Identifier(s): audio:6871; APSdigrec_0608; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 10
Description: "This song was composed by a t'luq'naxAdi woman, wuck'ik'a, for her brothers who were drowned at Lituya Bay. It was sung by Frank Italio, but Minnie Johnson was too overcome by grief to translate. It was impossible to get Frank Italio to give a signal for turning on and off the machine so that the full song was not recoreded."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning; Lituya Bay (Alaska)
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Three Athabaskan Songs belonging to the cAnkukedi
Identifier(s): audio:6843; APSdigrec_0615; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: "These are three of four songs in gonana (Athabaskan) given by the Aiyan Chief to the cAnkukedi because their people were drowned in the Aiyan River when going to visit him. There were originally four songs, but Frank Italio, who sang them, has forgotten the fourth."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Blind Dave Dick's Song, rebuking his brother's wife, to teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6932; APSdigrec_1050; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 12
Description: A song addressed to Mrs. Jack Peterson, accusing her of backsliding as a Christian, because she had quarreled with Blind Dave, her brother-in-law. Recording concludes with an explanation of the song in English by Minnie Johnson.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-29

Title: How the Russians gave whiskey to Raven
Identifier(s): audio:6854; APSdigrec_0593; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 03
Description: "Charley White tells the story in Tlingit of how the Russians gave whiskey to Raven. ([Around 2:20 mark] his foot can be heard tapping.) Story lasts [approx. 4 minutes]. Without a break, Charley White, Jack Reed (who beats banjo with ruler wrapped in cloth as a drum), Jennie White and Minnie Johnson sing the song referring to the story, which was composed by Dry Bay Chief George. Song from [approx 4:00 to 6:30]. Final remarks by Charley White."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Whiskey; Russians--Alaska; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-06-21

Title: Story & Song about Averted Fight Between Tsimshian and Yakutat Natives
Identifier(s): audio:6869; APSdigrec_0613; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 04
Description: Story told first in Tlingit by Annie Johnson, with interjections by Minnie Johnson, followed by song.; Song composed by miniie Johnson's mother's brother, Ckinan.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska--Hunting; Tsimshian Indians--History; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--History; Hunting--Alaska
Date: 1952-08-13

Title: Speeches in Tlingit
Identifier(s): audio:6866; APSdigrec_0597; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 07
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Date: 1952-07-04

Title: Practice singing of Thunderbird Origin Song
Identifier(s): audio:6839; APSdigrec_0599; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: "Prompted by F de Laguna, Minnie Johnson explains the machine to Frank Italio. Whistle at 1:04 minutes. Frank Italio starts to explain in Tlingit about gò.snA', the little boy who was lost and rescued by the Thunderbirds, when he is interrupted at 1:20 to 1:25 minutes by the entrance of Mrs. Annie Johnson. Begins singing mourning song for gosnA' at 2:30 minutes, and is interrupted by Minnie at 3:40 to 3:45 minutes. Ends singing at 4:22 minutes. Frank and Minnie and Annie talk. There is a reference to the Tlingit language; laughter at 5:00 minutes; reference to yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language); an argument from 6 to 6:30 minutes. At 6:50 Minnie Johnson tells F de Laguna 'Shut it off.' Machine is stopped."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Eyak language; Athapascan languages; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Arguments; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: How Raven deceived the Sea Otters in order to get medicine (plants) from them
Identifier(s): audio:6858; APSdigrec_0595; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Description: "Story lasts to 1:32, followed by song connected with the story, starting at 1:55. "Jack Reed (with banjo as drum), Charley White (who soon takes over as song leader), Jennie White and Minnie Johnson sing.... The song ends with the spoken words hutc eya ('that's all').... Final remarks by Charley White.... Identification of the two preceding songs by F. de Laguna."; De Laguna's closing comments also summarize prior recording, APSdigrec_0594.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Sea otter--Folklore; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Medicine; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-06-21