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Title: Table of contents for "Ahtna Texts Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska"
Identifier(s): text:183066
Description: Table of contents for audio collection, "Ahtna Texts Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska," which were made with Catherine McClellan and numerous Ahtna consultants in 1958. Includes listings of songs and interviews on tapes, including names of singers and speakers, as well as frequent additional detailed information on the nature of each recording. See recording collection "Ahtna Texts Recorded in Copper Center, Alaska" (Mss.Rec.31) for the audio material.
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
Source: Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (Mss.Ms.Coll.200); http://search.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Ms.Coll.200-ead.xml
Subject: Ahtena Indians
Date: 1958

Title: Interview with Jenny Peters
Identifier(s): audio:7473; APSdigrec_1372; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 24
Description: In English with occasional Ahtena vocabulary. Continued on next tape. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians
Date: 1968-06-25

Title: Bacille records traditional ending of myths
Identifier(s): audio:7487; APSdigrec_1386; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 12
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Folklore
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: About Ghosts
Identifier(s): audio:7674; APSdigrec_1538; Recording Number: 20; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Ghost stories
Date: 1968-08-17

Title: Salmon Boy
Identifier(s): audio:7623; APSdigrec_1504; Recording Number: 16; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Salmon--Folklore
Date: 1968-08-08

Title: Martha dictates the words to Frank Charley's song
Identifier(s): audio:7502; APSdigrec_1399; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 04
Description: Dictation in Ahtena of words to Frank Charley's Song for Sanford Charley, recorded earlier on the same tape. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Vocabulary from Tenas Charley
Identifier(s): audio:7481; APSdigrec_1374; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Ethnobiology
Date: 1968-06-29

Title: Story of Man who married a Bear
Identifier(s): audio:14388; APSdigrec_1494; Recording Number: 14; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.68-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Bears--Folklore
Date: 1968-07-30

Title: Interview with Jenny Peters, Jake & Lily Tanzy
Identifier(s): audio:7455; APSdigrec_1373; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: Includes discussion of Ahtena vocabulary. Continuation of interview conducted with Jenny Peters in her home. For beginning section, see Related Recording item #1. Includes a rendition of Big Mark's Sorry Song for his son. For another version, see Related Recording item #2.; In English with occasional Ahtena vocabulary.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Ahtena Indians--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians
Date: 1968-06-25

Title: Interview with Arthur Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7484; APSdigrec_1375; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: Arthur Jackson tells about his first meeting with white men in 1898 and about his first hunt.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--History; Ahtena Indians--Hunting; Hunting--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--First contact with Europeans
Date: 1968-06-30

Title: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7839; APSdigrec_1186; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: "Martha Jackson recorded several sleep doctor's (shaman's) songs, requesting us not to play them around Copper Center or Chistochina."; "1. Martha Jackson repeated sARani yAngadi song, using a drum, but apparently started it differently. [See Related Recording.] -- 2. Christian Sleep Doctor Song, also used by Gakona George. (Martha used a drum.)"; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Martha's Autobiography: Her Experience Becoming a Sleep Doctor
Identifier(s): audio:7611; APSdigrec_1453; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 08
Description: Includes a song, probably Tlingit, which she heard in a dream.; 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. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies; Autobiography; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7840; APSdigrec_1185; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Description: "Martha Jackson recorded several sleep doctor's (shaman's) songs, requesting us not to play them around Copper Center or Chistochina."; "1. sARani yAngadi (Crow-sunrise region) doctor's song. Originally used by Harry John's father, who was Martha's mother's 'father's brother.' Sung withoug a drum. Version with drum is on Side 2, 1. -- 2. Sleep doctor's Thunder (lt'Eni) Song. Originally used by Old Nicolai of Chitina. Also sung by Joe Nicolai, Martha's mother's cousin. It should be sung with a drum. -- 3. Gakona George's Sleep Doctor's Song. He was Martha's mother's brother. (Martha used a drum.) -- 4. A second song belonging to Gakona George, also shaman's song."; 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, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1958-08-16

Title: Victory Song for Cantwell-Valdez Creek War
Identifier(s): audio:7538; APSdigrec_1400; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; War songs
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Four stories told by Tenas Charley
Identifier(s): audio:14381; APSdigrec_1493; Recording Number: 14; Program Number: 01
Description: Story of Kilya and Rabbit - Story of Kilya and Bag of Arrows - Story of Kilya and Bear - Story of Girl who Married a Bear
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.68-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Bears--Folklore; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-07-30

Title: Story of Kilya who married Bears
Identifier(s): audio:14395; APSdigrec_1495; Recording Number: 14; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.Rec.68-ead.xml; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Bears--Folklore; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-07-30

Title: Victory Song "Stinking" for Cantwell-Valdez Creek War
Identifier(s): audio:7536; APSdigrec_1401; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 06
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; War songs
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Martha records sounds of different loons
Identifier(s): audio:7490; APSdigrec_1385; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 11
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Loons--Folklore; Birdsongs--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Two songs by Martha Jackson
Identifier(s): audio:7521; APSdigrec_1393; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: - Groundsquirrel's own song, sung by hunters- Glacier Man's Song to Stop Rain
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena language; Hunting songs
Date: 1968-07-04

Title: Douglas Billum's Song for his Partner
Identifier(s): audio:7851; APSdigrec_1341; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Love songs
Date: 1958-08-30