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Title: Jim McKinley's Sorry Song for Oscar Craig, 1967
Identifier(s): audio:7624; APSdigrec_1498; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language
Date: 1968-08-03

Title: Joe Goodlataw's "Grandfather's" (mother's father's brother's) Sorry Song for Joe's great(?) grandfather who drowned. TurAl. "ayo heye hey hayo hayu"
Identifier(s): audio:7707; APSdigrec_1581; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 08
Description: Recording begins with introduction to recording session by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-24

Title: Sorry Song by Martha's "Grandpa" (Mother's Mother's Brother)
Identifier(s): audio:7625; APSdigrec_1503; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 08
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-05

Title: David Teagle's sorry song for his father
Identifier(s): audio:7544; APSdigrec_1432; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 06
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanacross language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-25

Title: Tlingit Worry Song
Identifier(s): audio:7492; APSdigrec_1378; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 04
Description: Song was prompted by Tlingit Worry Song recorded in 1954. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-06-30

Title: Kagwantan Mourning Song (incorrect version)
Identifier(s): audio:6910; APSdigrec_1017; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: Singer requested to record the song a second time. (See first link under Related Recording.) Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna as at end of subsequent recording. (See second link under Related Recording.)
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
Date: 1954-03-27

Title: Tlingit Sorry Song: "i yai ho yoho"
Identifier(s): audio:7679; APSdigrec_1558; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 10
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tlingit language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Knik Indian Worry Song: "vita yeya...ye do du 'iti tige"
Identifier(s): audio:7684; APSdigrec_1569; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 21
Description: Singing led by Martha Jackson.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Dena'ina language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Mentasta Pete's Half-brother's Sorry Song for His Older Brother
Identifier(s): audio:7681; APSdigrec_1563; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 15
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Sorry song by a woman who killed her brother for incest
Identifier(s): audio:7491; APSdigrec_1379; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 05
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-06-30

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