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Title: Northway Potlatch Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7908; local: APSdigrec_1193; local: 07; local: 01;
Description: "Beginning of song missed in recording. Bill Joe drums; Markle Ewan, Jim McKinley, Ralph Sanford were the chief singers."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Another Shushana Song, for entering dance hall
Identifier(s): audio:7713; APSdigrec_1561; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 13
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; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: Indian Party #2 at Tetlin in spring of 1961 for Martha Luke
Identifier(s): audio:7638; APSdigrec_1755; Recording Number: 28; Program Number: 02
Description: This performance was recorded in Tetlin, Alaska by Jimmy Joe. Copies of the recording were later given to Frederica de Laguna. A detailed list of the songs performed has not been located among the collector's documentation. Given the location of the recording, a significant portion of the songs are likely in the Upper Tanana language. Performance may include songs in languages of other nearby communities, though specific linguistic information is not available in the collector's documentation.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Upper Tanana language; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanana Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1961

Title: Northway Potlatch Song
Identifier(s): audio:7026; APSdigrec_1119; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 07
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; Upper Tanana language; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Potlatch given for Henry John, who died May 20, 1968
Identifier(s): audio:7639; APSdigrec_1752; Recording Number: 27; Program Number: 01
Description: This potlatch was recorded in Tetlin, Alaska by Jimmy Joe. Copies of the recording were later given to Frederica de Laguna. A detailed list of the songs performed has not been located among the collector's documentation. Given the location of the recording, a significant portion of the songs are likely in the Upper Tanana language. Performance may include songs in languages of other nearby communities, though specific linguistic information is not available in the collector's documentation.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Upper Tanana language; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanana Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1968

Title: Joe Goodlataw's Sorry Song for his Daughter (1962?)
Identifier(s): audio:7647; APSdigrec_1516; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 10
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 7 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: Potlatch given for Chief Luke, Chief Peter, and Roosevelt Titus by Jimmy Joe, Titus David, and Emma Titus [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:7636; APSdigrec_1754; Recording Number: 28; Program Number: 01
Description: This potlatch was recorded in Tetlin, Alaska by Jimmy Joe. Copies of the recording were later given to Frederica de Laguna. A detailed list of the songs performed has not been located among the collector's documentation. Given the location of the recording, a significant portion of the songs are likely in the Upper Tanana language. Performance may include songs in languages of other nearby communities, though specific linguistic information is not available in the collector's documentation.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Upper Tanana language; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanana Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1963-11-29

Title: Potlatch given by Titus David for his father Chief David, who died in 1923 [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:7724; APSdigrec_1750; Recording Number: 25; Program Number: 01
Description: This potlatch was recorded in Tetlin, Alaska by Jimmy Joe. Copies of the recording were later given to Frederica de Laguna. A detailed list of the songs performed has not been located among the collector's documentation. Given the location of the recording, a significant portion of the songs are likely in the Upper Tanana language. Performance may include songs in languages of other nearby communities, though specific linguistic information is not available in the collector's documentation.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Upper Tanana language; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanana Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1966-11-26

Title: Old Up-the-line Dance Song:; Copper Center Singing
Identifier(s): audio:7874; local: APSdigrec_1306; local: 07; local: 14;
Description: "Identified by Bacille George 8/28/58 as an old Up-the-line Dance Song, which he had heard as a kid at a big potlatch at Upper Tonsina, when his father gave away $3000."; ;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Potlatch--Alaska;
Date: 1954-08-15

Title: Chief John's Sorry Song for his Older Brother, 1912-1916 (?)
Identifier(s): audio:7660; APSdigrec_1515; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 09
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 6 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 Adam's Sorry Song for her Son, Tetlin; Good Night spoken by Andy Brown
Identifier(s): audio:7650; APSdigrec_1533; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 27
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 24 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: Jim McKinley's speech at potlatch for Oscar Craig, 1967
Identifier(s): audio:7631; APSdigrec_1499; Recording Number: 15; Program Number: 04
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska; Ahtena language; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Date: 1968-08-03

Title: Potlatch Song
Identifier(s): audio:6996; APSdigrec_1090; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 03
Description: "This song is said to be sung from Chitina to Cordova. The words sound like Athabaskan pronunciation of Tlingit."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
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; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-07-12

Title: John Ewan's (Fred Ewan's father) sorry song for his father, Gulkana, 1921
Identifier(s): audio:7675; APSdigrec_1513; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 07
Description: Part of an imaginary potlatch held at Copper Center. Part 4 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: 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: A Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7058; APSdigrec_1092; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 05
Description: A song by the singer's father, a Tlingit, of the Eagle gIts'i'Iltcha sib. This was a happy song used at potlatches, when the champion dancers and singers were in the center, and the rest danced in a circle around them. Also formerly sung by the singer's elder brothers, Chief Nikolai and Chief Hangita, and Escaldita.; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Potlatch given by Titus David for his father Chief David, who died in 1923 [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): audio:7729; APSdigrec_1751; Recording Number: 26; Program Number: 01
Description: This potlatch was recorded in Tetlin, Alaska by Jimmy Joe. Copies of the recording were later given to Frederica de Laguna. A detailed list of the songs performed has not been located among the collector's documentation. Given the location of the recording, a significant portion of the songs are likely in the Upper Tanana language. Performance may include songs in languages of other nearby communities, though specific linguistic information is not available in the collector's documentation.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Upper Tanana language; Tanana Indians--Music; Tanana Indians--Social life and customs; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1966-11-26

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: Song for Sushana Potlatch, by Bill Justin, Joe Justin and Jack John Justin's father, 1916 (happy song?)
Identifier(s): audio:7692; APSdigrec_1559; Recording Number: 22; 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; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-22

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