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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: Douglas and Mary Anne Billum, both formerly of Chitina
Identifier(s): audio:7860; APSdigrec_1192; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: "1. Mary Ann drums, both sing a Tlingit song. 2. Ground Squirrel song, to bring good weatheer. 'Southweather clear all around I see'. Song is interrupted. 3. Second Groundsquirrel Song for good weather, follows without a break: 'tcisle, 'duya'ya'....' 4. Tlingit song. 'Ali......'"; Tlingit song -- Ground Squirrel song -- Second Ground Squirrel song -- Tlingit song
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; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1958-07-28

Title: Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7067; APSdigrec_1114; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 02
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; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1954-08-05

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: 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: 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

Title: Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7014; APSdigrec_1116; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 04
Description: "Introduction by Oscar Craig. This is an old-fashioned love song, of the type composed and sung by a person of either sex who is worried about absent sweet-heart. The words mean: 'I want to see you.' 'You look good to me.' 'I see you standing and I would like to see you' - according to different informants. It was supposedly sung by Tenos Jack to Lotti Carlsen, and he was assisted by the entire group. No drum. Feet tap... Oscar Craig explains love-song. It is addressed to s'ude 'my cross-cousin' - who he calls 'second cousin.'"; 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; Love songs; Ahtena language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Tetlin or Tanacross Song
Identifier(s): audio:7018; APSdigrec_1120; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 08
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: Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:7037; APSdigrec_1125; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 13
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: Tlingit Song and Dance
Identifier(s): audio:7005; APSdigrec_1115; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 03
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; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1954-08-05