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Title: Never Forget Me (sode wa'šare)
Identifier(s): audio:17918; APSdigrec_4434; 02; 01
Description: On side of tape labelled "Mourning Songs and drum by Mr. Gregory Shae, a medicine man."
Subject: Kawchottine Indians--Music; Mourning customs; K'asho Got'ine people
Date: 1961-07-22

Title: Kagwantan Mourning Song (correct version)
Identifier(s): audio:6937; APSdigrec_1020; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 04
Description: "Emma Ellis introduces song in Tlingit. It was supposedly composed by cacken, a kagwantan survivor of the war with the cX'atqwan of Wrangell. The latter were finally massacred at a peace dance given by the kagwantan at Sitka about the middle of the last century. Cf. Swanton Song 103."; Second recorded version of song. For first version, see Related Recording. Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-01

Title: Interview between FdeL, Mrs. Katy Dixon Isaacs, and her grandson, Sheldon James Junior
Identifier(s): audio:6961; APSdigrec_1036; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: Interview followed by "Mourning Song of guditlt'a who shot his younger brother." Interview continues, follwed by "kwack'qwan song for walking over the glacier."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-03-29

Title: Far to Heaven (yak'e watze niwa) and Song of Angels (yak'e got'ine)
Identifier(s): audio:17921; APSdigrec_4435; 02; 02
Description: On side of tape labelled "Mourning Songs and drum by Mr. Gregory Shae, a medicine man."
Subject: Kawchottine Indians--Music; Mourning customs; K'asho Got'ine people
Date: 1961-07-22

Title: Half of wuckika's Song of Mourning
Identifier(s): audio:6989; APSdigrec_1070; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 14
Description: "This song was composed by the woman whose relatives were drowned in Lituya Bay, over a century ago."
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: 1954-05-17

Title: Oscar Ewan's Own Sorry Song for his Oldest Son
Identifier(s): audio:7683; APSdigrec_1576; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 03
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: 1968-08-23

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7632; APSdigrec_1500; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 05
Description: Identificaton of previously recorded items on reel. (APSdigrec_1478 - APSdigrec_1481)
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
Date: 1968-08-03

Title: Jim McKinley's Sorry Song for Agnes's Mother, Lower Tonsina 1924, second attempt
Identifier(s): audio:7626; APSdigrec_1497; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 02
Description: Re-recording of song. See Related Recording.
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: Fred Ewan's Sorry Song for his Mother's Brother (cousin), Gulkana
Identifier(s): audio:7587; APSdigrec_1472; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 02
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: 1968-07-28

Title: Ring Charley's Sorry Song for his Brother, Chitina
Identifier(s): audio:7567; APSdigrec_1470; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 25
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: 1968-08-10

Title: Andy Brown's Sorry Song for hs Uncle, Lower Tonsina, 1948
Identifier(s): audio:7607; APSdigrec_1468; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 23
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: 1968-08-10

Title: Interview with Jenny Peters, Jake & Lily Tanzy
Identifier(s): audio:7455; APSdigrec_1373; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: Includes discussion of Ahtena vocabulary. Continuation of interview conducted with Jenny Peters in her home. For beginning section, see Related Recording item #1. Includes a rendition of Big Mark's Sorry Song for his son. For another version, see Related Recording item #2.; In English with occasional Ahtena vocabulary.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Ahtena Indians--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians
Date: 1968-06-25

Title: Oscar Ewan's Sorry Song for his son, Gulkana 1964
Identifier(s): audio:7589; APSdigrec_1471; Recording Number: 13; Program Number: 01
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: 1968-07-28

Title: Oscar Ewan's Sorry Song for his Son
Identifier(s): audio:7757; APSdigrec_1584; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 11
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: 1968-08-29

Title: Jim McKinley's Sorry Song for his Cousin, Charles Otegay
Identifier(s): audio:7619; APSdigrec_1469; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 24
Description: Song was composed in 1919.
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: 1968-08-10

Title: Big Mark's Sorry Song for his son
Identifier(s): audio:7583; APSdigrec_1433; Recording Number: 11; Program Number: 07
Description: Composed by Big Mark of Tanacross, who died in 1905. "He start to die. Next morning get up. He chase that silver fox. See that silver fox track. [The tracks remind him of his dead son.]"
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: Fred Ewan's Sorry Song for his Father, 1953-54 (?)
Identifier(s): audio:7715; APSdigrec_1577; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 04
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: 1968-08-23

Title: Fred John's Sister's Sorry Song for her Father, Mentasta [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:7749; APSdigrec_1591; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 18
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: 1968-08-29

Title: Jim McKinley's Sorry Song for Agnes's Mother, first attempt
Identifier(s): audio:7627; APSdigrec_1496; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 01
Description: Beginning of recording was originally recorded at higher speed, causing slower speed on playback. This problem has been digitally corrected, though some sound distortion remains in the opening :48. Song was re-recorded. See Related Recording.
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: Andrew Isaac's sorry song for Johnny Frank
Identifier(s): audio:7488; APSdigrec_1380; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 06
Description: An Up-the-Line song.; Ends with identification of this recording and previously recorded material from the same session (APSdigrec_1374 - APSdigrec_1380).
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tanacross language; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-06-30