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Title: Explanation by F. de Laguna of the preceding songs and stories
Identifier(s): audio:6875; APSdigrec_0605; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 07
Description: "Correction is made that the language of the Thunderbird Origin Song...is probably in Athabaskan, not Eyak."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Gospel Hymn "Yesterday, Today, Forever"
Identifier(s): audio:7045; APSdigrec_1099; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 12
Description: Recording concludes with identification of this song and the three preceding ones by Frederica de Laguna. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Hymns
Date: 1954-07-14

Title: Identification of recording by F de Laguna
Identifier(s): audio:6868; APSdigrec_0621; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 04
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska
Date: 1952-09-09

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:6859; APSdigrec_0609; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 11
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska
Date: 1952-07-30

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: Gospel Hymn "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus":;
Identifier(s): audio:7077; local: APSdigrec_1165; local: 10; local: 19;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest. Tape ends in middle of song.; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Religion; Hymns;
Date: 1954-08-22

Title: Unidentified song
Identifier(s): audio:7068; APSdigrec_1110; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 23
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: Up-the-Line Dance Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7013; local: APSdigrec_1142; local: 09; local: 30;
Description: "Ralf Sanford: 'Another one from Tanacross.' Harry Frank: 'From Nabesna River.' Others mention Northway, Tanacross, Tatlin."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Tanacross language; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs;
Date: 1954-08-20

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: Up-the-Line Song and Dance
Identifier(s): audio:7060; APSdigrec_1112; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 25
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--Dance; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
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: Tanana River Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7008; APSdigrec_1103; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 16
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; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: War Dance Song (?)
Identifier(s): audio:7015; APSdigrec_1111; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 24
Description: "Song begins in middle- Mentasta Pete drumming; Bacille George, Oscar Craig, Jim McKinley dance with paper 'feathers'.... Explanation by Oscar Craig. This is a Yukon song. Bacille George says they are broadcasting from Copper Center."; 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--Dance; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Dance Song from Tanacross:;
Identifier(s): audio:7025; local: APSdigrec_1141; local: 09; local: 29;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; ;
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Tanacross language;
Date: 1954-08-20

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

Title: Explanation in English of Farewell song to t'luq'naxAdi's daughters
Identifier(s): audio:6870; APSdigrec_0611; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1952-08-13

Title: Naskik's song
Identifier(s): audio:6857; APSdigrec_0622; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 01
Description: "Naskik was her mother's mother's younger brother. He was chief of Reef House on Johnson Slough, and was married to a Teqwedi woman. He was the father of Situk Jim who died in 1916. He is supposed to have composed and sung this song after a quarrel with his brother-in-law, and then gone outside where he met his death. There is a hint of suicide, since in the song he wishes to join the Northern Lights, the abode of those who had died through suicide or murder."; Identification of recording by F. de Laguna -- Introduction by Minnie Johnson -- Song, sung by Minnie Johnson -- Final explanation, partly in English, through end
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1952-09-09

Title: 'E li ye, by Andy Brown
Identifier(s): audio:7606; APSdigrec_1462; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 17
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-10

Title: Talk
Identifier(s): audio:7011; APSdigrec_1132; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 20
Description: "Lucy Albert speaks in Northway Athabaskan.... Frank Charley evidently paraphrases in Chistochina dialect.... Maggy Joe explains that Lucy Albert lost her cousin, the big chief, at Northway. She has just come back here to live near her two surviving relatives, - ?- and Frank Charley, her son."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Upper Tanana language; Ahtena language
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Goodbys
Identifier(s): audio:6978; APSdigrec_1168; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 22
Description: "The whole group says goodby into the microphone."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Farewells; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-08-22