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Title: Olaf Abraham's Wolf Call Song to his wife; to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6923; APSdigrec_0996; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description: Begins with Olaf's explanation in Tlingit that the song was composed in 1939 because his wife wept when he left her to go trapping. 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: 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: Olaf Abraham's Song about Antlen River
Identifier(s): audio:6926; APSdigrec_0995; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 07
Description: Begins with Olaf speaking in Tlingit, "explaining how he composed the song when fishing at Antlen. [1953. Apparently the second stanza was just recently composed.]" 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; Antlen River (Alaska)--Songs and music
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Story and Song of Drum House teqwedi's Golden Eagle
Identifier(s): audio:6911; APSdigrec_0994; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 06
Description: Begins with story of Golden Eagle, told by Olaf Abraham. Song is then sung by Olaf Abraham and Charley White. Story is the retold Olaf and translated into English by Sheldon James. Ends with explanation of recording 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; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Killerwhale Drum Song of teqwedi sib
Identifier(s): audio:6971; APSdigrec_1042; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 04
Description: Sung with Nick Milton on the drum, Olaf calling the words, and Katy Dixon and Louise Peterson assisting. Olaf Abraham speaks in Tlingit about the song. Helen Bremner then translates Olaf's words. "It is an old [song], belonging to the Teqwedi, and was sung at potlatches, when the Killerwhale Drum was beaten. The drum was made at diyagnuaEt on Lost River and was last seen in 1921. A member of the opposite moiety was hired to beat it."; This song was later re-recorded with correction. (For later version, see first item under Related Recording.) Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. (See second item under related Related Recording.)
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-25