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Title: Lucy Adam's Mother's Song for her sister
Identifier(s): audio:7573; APSdigrec_1444; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 18
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tanana Indians--Music; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-26

Title: Chief Escaldita's Sorry Song for his Son, Chitina, 1915
Identifier(s): audio:7667; APSdigrec_1512; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 06
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 3 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Andrew Isaac's sorry song for his son
Identifier(s): audio:7542; APSdigrec_1429; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 03
Description: Song was composed at Tanacross in 1966 or 1967.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tanana Indians--Music; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-25

Title: Andy Wood's Sorry Song for his father after his mother's death, 1919
Identifier(s): audio:7641; APSdigrec_1511; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 05
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 2 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Mrs. McKinley George's Sorry Song for her Daughter, 1925
Identifier(s): audio:7676; APSdigrec_1518; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 12
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 9 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Lucy's daddy's song for Adam's son
Identifier(s): audio:7596; APSdigrec_1443; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 17
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tanana Indians--Music; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-07-26

Title: Mentasta Sam's Sorry Song for Mentasta Chief John, 1918 (his older brother)
Identifier(s): audio:7648; APSdigrec_1510; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 04
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 1 of 24.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: General Tiwa vocabulary [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:4615; APSdigrec_2266; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: Entirely in English. Primarily concerns recent happenings at the pueblo.
Source: Brandt, Elizabeth A. Linguistic Data in Sandia Dialect of Tiwa, [1968-1970]. (Mss.Rec.72);
Subject: Tiwa dance; Tiwa Indians--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--New Mexico; Anthropological linguistics; anthropological_linguistics
Date: 1968-07-25

Title: Explanation of Thunderbird Origin Story; Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6850; APSdigrec_0600; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: "Frank explains Thunderbird Origin Story in Tlingit. At [approx. 2:45] Minnie Johnson urges Frank Italio to sing. Mourning soung for go.snA' with rapid beat of cane."; Correction made by collector on later recording that original identification of the language of the song--referred to as "yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language)"--was likely misidentified as Eyak and is instead likely to be "in some dialect of Athabaskan." 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; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit mythology; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30

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: Explanation of Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6844; APSdigrec_0601; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30

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

Title: Song about a lady who lost a baby
Identifier(s): audio:7003; APSdigrec_1108; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 21
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Sorry Song for Frank Charley's Father:;
Identifier(s): audio:7062; local: APSdigrec_1135; local: 09; local: 23;
Description: Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Frank Tanacross' Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7029; local: APSdigrec_1127; local: 09; local: 15;
Description: Song composed by the singer for his sister's funeral potlatch.; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tanacross language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:7075; local: APSdigrec_1128; local: 09; local: 16;
Description: "Jim McKinley explains: 'Same thing again. Frank's boy died at Tanana River. His boy make it himself and he die.'"; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tanacross language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Steven Northway's Christmas Tree mourning song for his wife:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7881; local: APSdigrec_1201; local: 07; local: 09;
Description: "(Made about 1954). 'Pity me, Christmas Tree.'"; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Christmas trees--Songs and music;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Sorry Song for Mrs. Banzanita Billy's Boy:;
Identifier(s): audio:7087; local: APSdigrec_1145; local: 09; local: 33;
Description: "Introduction by Bill Joe. The father or mother made this song after the death of the son, while listening to a phonograph record."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-20

Title: Tetlin Sorry Song
Identifier(s): audio:6821; APSdigrec_1662; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 08
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1960-08-27

Title: Frank Charley's Sorry Song
Identifier(s): audio:6772; APSdigrec_1632; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 20
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1960. (Mss.Rec.41);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1960-08-14