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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: 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: Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:6988; APSdigrec_1100; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 13
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest. Information identifying the song is missing from the collector's accompanying documentation. Available information gathered from recording itself.
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: Tetlin Worry Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7892; local: APSdigrec_1313; local: 07; local: 21;
Description: "Tetlin Worry Song (according to Bacille George). Maggie Joe started the singing. 'That's the biggest dance of them all.' The song belonged to Nancy George's cousin, a woman named May or xAtnilnan. 'My daddy, come back to your country. Oh my daddy.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Up-the-line dance:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7870; local: APSdigrec_1312; local: 07; local: 20;
Description: "Recording missed initial two beats. Identified by Bacille George as an Up-the-line dance."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Goodby Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6984; local: APSdigrec_1167; local: 10; local: 21;
Description: "The words mean; 'Goodby, sudE', I follow you' or `Etsuda nANgAl st'Al 'I like to follow my sweetheart.'"; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
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: Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7877; APSdigrec_1323; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 31
Description: Song started by Bill Joe.
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 dance; Ahtena language
Date: 1958-08-15

Title: Tlingit Song (with drum)
Identifier(s): audio:7872; APSdigrec_1344; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 06
Description: "An old song, learned from his grandfather."
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
Date: 1958-08-30

Title: Up-the-Line Dance Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7006; local: APSdigrec_1133; local: 09; local: 21;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena dance;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Old Up-the-line Dance Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7874; local: APSdigrec_1306; local: 07; local: 14;
Description: "Identified by Bacille George 8/28/58 as an old Up-the-line Dance Song, which he had heard as a kid at a big potlatch at Upper Tonsina, when his father gave away $3000."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

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 to Dick Ewan, by Maggy Joe & Kate Sanford:;
Identifier(s): audio:6980; local: APSdigrec_1159; local: 10; local: 13;
Description: "The song was composed that afternoon, on a trip to Gulkana. Dick Ewan is the cross-cousin, sudE', of the two sisters."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Love songs;
Date: 1954-08-22

Title: Northway "Muskrat" Drinking Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6994; local: APSdigrec_1144; local: 09; local: 32;
Description: "Bill Joe introduces the song. It was composed by Titus John, former husband of Lucy (Albert??). 'When I'm drunk I act like a muskrat, go around collecting grass.' There is also said to be a reference to an outboard motor on a lake."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Drinking songs--Alaska; Muskrat;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: SaRani gai (Crow) & nAlbei (Seagull) Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7022; local: APSdigrec_1140; local: 09; local: 28;
Description: "[Song] is said to be about Crow and Seagull who ate too much at a potlatch."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-20

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: 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: 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