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Title: Resting Song (kwack'qwan)
Identifier(s): audio:7017; APSdigrec_1078; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 07
Description: The words of the song are identified by collector as being "in Copper River Language." This most likely designates Eyak.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Migrations; Migration, Internal--Alaska; Eyak language
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Marching Song (kwack'qwan)
Identifier(s): audio:7036; APSdigrec_1077; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 06
Description: "Maggy Harry introduces the song in Tlingit. It is one supposedly used as a marching song by the ancestors of the kwack'qwan on their migration from the Copper River; now used by the kwack'qwan when marching to a house to which they have been invited as guests at a potlatch."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Migrations; Migration, Internal--Alaska; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Mourning Song (kwack'qwan)
Identifier(s): audio:7086; APSdigrec_1079; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 08
Description: "Maggy Harry introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed on the migration from Copper River, by a man who shot his brother by mistake, and is now sung at potlatches 'when we lost our parents.'"; The words of the song are identified by collector as being "in Copper River Language." This most likely designates Eyak.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Migrations; Migration, Internal--Alaska; Eyak language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-27