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Title: Little Fish Song
Identifier(s): audio:6983; APSdigrec_1109; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 22
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest. Identification of the song, performer, and language is missing from the collector's documentation.
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
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Introduction by FdeL
Identifier(s): audio:7002; APSdigrec_1130; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 18
Description: Recorded at Chistochina 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
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Sarani (Crow) Song
Identifier(s): audio:7059; APSdigrec_1088; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 01
Description: "It is a potlatch dancing song from Up-the-Line, Copper Center or Chistochina. The words apparently mean: 'When he's flying around, the Crow says he's going to see you some day.'"; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Potlatch--Alaska; Crows
Date: 1954-07-12

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7897; APSdigrec_1318; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 26
Description: "The recording of songs 1-12 [APSdigrec_1193 - APSdigrec_1202, APSdigrec_1303 - APSdigrec_1304] was made in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall, after a political meeting, at which Bruce Kendall of Valdez spoke of Statehood. The meeting was attended by men and women from Copper Center, Gulkana, and Chistochina. About 20 men and 10 women at the most joined in the singing. These included Jim McKinley and Oscar Craig of Copper Center, and Bill Joe and Ralph Sanford of Chistochina. Markle Ewan and two others were from Gulkana. The recording was interrupted by the failure of the power plant. Songs 13-25 [APSdigrec_1305 - APSdigrec_1317] and Side 2, songs 1-9 [APSdigrec_1319 - APSdigrec_1327], were recorded at our cabin, where we managed to get 13 Indians from Chistochina and Gulkana."; Identification at end of tape of prior songs recorded on that tape. (APSdigrec_1193 - APSdigrec_1202, APSdigrec_1303 - APSdigrec_1317)
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1954

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7885; APSdigrec_1189; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 06
Description: Frederica de Laguna identifies contents of recordings on Reel 4. See Related Recordings.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958

Title: Tlingit Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7859; APSdigrec_1336; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 44
Description: "(Beginning was missed.) ... 100, 200 yrs. old.... Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music; Love songs
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Another Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:6982; APSdigrec_1093; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 06
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Up-the-Line Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7024; APSdigrec_1098; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 11
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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: 1954-07-14

Title: Tlingit Worry Song
Identifier(s): audio:7039; APSdigrec_1094; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 07
Description: "It came from SE Alaska, and was sung at potlatch for Joe's grandfather who drowned in the Copper River near Miles and Childs Glaciers. His grandmother used to sing it. It was also sung by his brother at the potlatch for the latter's wife who died in childbirth."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Drowning victims; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Introduction by FdeL
Identifier(s): audio:6999; APSdigrec_1147; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 01
Description: Recorded at Chistochina 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
Date: 1954-08-22

Title: Ahtna song
Identifier(s): audio:7850; APSdigrec_1338; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 46
Description: "Bacille recorded the song to which is the dance of the old couple and their dead baby, but his voice was so poor that he asked to have the song erased if the tape were copied or played on the Copper River."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language
Date: 1958-08-28

Title: Tlingit Drowning Song
Identifier(s): audio:7852; APSdigrec_1334; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 42
Description: "A sorry song from drowned people. (cf. Joe Goodlataw, Chitina, 1954 [APSdigrec_1094]). Chistochina people in 1960 identified this as a Chitina song, Eyak. They don't dance, but stand up and sway from side to side.... Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music; Drowning victims
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Up-The-Line Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7020; APSdigrec_1097; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 10
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena dance
Date: 1954-07-14

Title: Potlatch Song
Identifier(s): audio:6996; APSdigrec_1090; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 03
Description: "This song is said to be sung from Chitina to Cordova. The words sound like Athabaskan pronunciation of Tlingit."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-07-12

Title: Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:6986; local: APSdigrec_1171; local: 10; local: 25
Description: "Words of song: titl'akwAdzEn' kwAdr'.li' dzEn'ada tEdzEnikwana. A lady get story from her boy friend. She feel sorry for her boyfriend. 'When I hear that story, I feel sorry.' She feel sick about it. She's dead. This is a Wolf song. The composer (? or singer?) was Susie, married to Nelson at one time. Her name was `ntcInulyan`."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Southern Tutchone language; Love songs
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Going to Dalton Post
Identifier(s): audio:7028; local: APSdigrec_1170; local: 10; local: 24
Description: "This is a Wolf moiety song. It was composed by a half-breed boy, John Brown (or Broon), Charley's brother, from Champagne, on the occasion of a big potlatch at Bee Lake, to which the original words of the song refer. It was sung to us when we were walking to Dalton Post."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Southern Tutchone language
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Big Jim's Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7056; local: APSdigrec_1176; local: 10; local: 30
Description: "This is her father's song. He hears bad luck like thunder inside. He hears it that time he start the song. His wife gonna die, his daughter's dead, and his son's wife's dead. Three die in one day. Quick sick. It was at Dalton Post, before the white men came. He heard it (the portent?) down the Alsek at a hil, Sheep Hat, near nuqa-ik."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Up the Line Drinking Song (Tcecali)
Identifier(s): audio:6998; APSdigrec_1096; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 09
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-07-14

Title: A Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7058; APSdigrec_1092; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 05
Description: A song by the singer's father, a Tlingit, of the Eagle gIts'i'Iltcha sib. This was a happy song used at potlatches, when the champion dancers and singers were in the center, and the rest danced in a circle around them. Also formerly sung by the singer's elder brothers, Chief Nikolai and Chief Hangita, and Escaldita.; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Tlingit Song to dakl'awedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:7041; local: APSdigrec_1172; local: 10; local: 26
Description: "The song is sung by a Wolf man to Crow girl, nIsAdi-yAtx'i."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1954-08-31