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Title: Radio story on fisherman lost on Lake Winnipeg near Jackhead
Identifier(s): : Jackhead-2002-01; : 01
Subject: Drowning victims; Jackhead (Man.); Ojibwe Indians--Canada--History; Radio programs
Date: 2002

Title: Tlingit Worry Song
Identifier(s): audio:7039; APSdigrec_1094; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 07
Description: "It came from SE Alaska, and was sung at potlatch for Joe's grandfather who drowned in the Copper River near Miles and Childs Glaciers. His grandmother used to sing it. It was also sung by his brother at the potlatch for the latter's wife who died in childbirth."; 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: Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Drowning victims; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: kwack'qwan Mourning Song for those Drowned
Identifier(s): audio:7053; APSdigrec_1084; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 13
Description: "Maggy introduces the song in Tlingit. Then- 'It's a pretty sad song, this one. I always cry when I sing it, but I'm gonna try to brave enough to sing it.' [Mourning song for those who drown. It is addressed to the dead son. Composed in Chilkat on Bering River by kagwask' about 1860 ? when his brother was lost on a snowslide."
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; Drowning victims
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Song in Tlingit about the Drowning in the Aiyan River
Identifier(s): audio:6847; APSdigrec_0616; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Three Snatches of Mourning Song for Lituya Drowning
Identifier(s): audio:6871; APSdigrec_0608; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 10
Description: "This song was composed by a t'luq'naxAdi woman, wuck'ik'a, for her brothers who were drowned at Lituya Bay. It was sung by Frank Italio, but Minnie Johnson was too overcome by grief to translate. It was impossible to get Frank Italio to give a signal for turning on and off the machine so that the full song was not recoreded."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning; Lituya Bay (Alaska)
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Tlingit Drowning Song
Identifier(s): audio:7852; APSdigrec_1334; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 42
Description: "A sorry song from drowned people. (cf. Joe Goodlataw, Chitina, 1954 [APSdigrec_1094]). Chistochina people in 1960 identified this as a Chitina song, Eyak. They don't dance, but stand up and sway from side to side.... Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58."
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; Tlingit Indians--Music; Drowning victims
Date: 1958-08-16