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Title: Killerwhale Drum Song
Identifier(s): audio:7023; APSdigrec_1062; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 06
Description: "Nick Milton sings. He said that they had made a mistake in the words of the second stanza when the song was sung 4/25/54. There should be two or three different voices for the song."; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna. For previously recorded version of song, see Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Teqwedi Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7066; local: APSdigrec_1064; local: 06; local: 08
Description: "[Song] lacks words." Identified in de Laguna's notes as having Tsimshian origins.; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna.
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies; Tsimshian Indians
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: First Stanza of Teqwedi Mourning Song, for men lost getting green stone near Sitka, [cf. Swanton, 1909, p. 46]
Identifier(s): audio:7084; APSdigrec_1065; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 09
Description: Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Kardeetoo's Song about diyagnuagt
Identifier(s): audio:6966; APSdigrec_1041; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 03
Description: "The song was composed by Kardeetoo when he built Bear Paw House at Lost River, about 1918. He mourns his dead uncles at diyagunaEt on Lost River."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-25

Title: Teqwedi Walking Song
Identifier(s): audio:7010; APSdigrec_1063; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 07
Description: "[Song] has Tsimshian words, and was perhaps one obtained about 1900 from Tsimshian sea-otter hunters at Yakutat, because they were sorry they nearly started a fight with the Yakutat Tlingit over a disputed sea-otter. It is used when the teqwedi guests at a potlatch enter and leave the house to which they have been invited."; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--History; Tsimshian Indians--History; Potlatch; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:7035; APSdigrec_1066; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 10
Description: "Nick Milton speaks in Tlingit about the song. The spirits were the children of the Sun and of a teqwedi woman whose relatives had all been killed in a war. These spirits came from SE Alaska but passed over all the other sibs. They came first to Xatgawet, a rich teqwedi shaman who lived on Knight Island, and were later inherited by t'ek'-ic who died in the 1880's."; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Raven and Mussels
Identifier(s): audio:6947; APSdigrec_1044; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 06
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character); Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1954-04-25

Title: Raven and Snipes Song
Identifier(s): audio:6936; APSdigrec_1043; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 05
Description: "A funny song, supposedly one to which Raven and Snipes danced at potlatch given by Killerwhales."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character); Potlatch; Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1954-04-25

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