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Title: Forbidden Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7696; APSdigrec_1568; Recording Number: 22; Program Number: 20
Description: Singing led by Martha Jackson.
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; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Taboo
Date: 1968-08-22

Title: A Girl Married to a Dog
Identifier(s): audio:9126; APSdigrec_0571; Series: 02; Recording Number: 10; Program Number: 05
Description: A story describing the marriage of a girl and a dog and the tragedy that resulted in the Ottawa prohibition against the marriage of a human to an animal.; Originally recorded on wire recorder in 1948 and transferred to reel-to-reel tape in 1949.
Source: Willets, Jane. Ottawa material, [1947]. (Mss.Rec.1);
Subject: Ottawa language; Ottawa Indians--Folklore; Dogs--Folklore; Marriage--Folklore; Human-animal relationships; Taboo; Ottawa Indians--Social life and customs
Date: 1948-06

Title: Engi Song
Identifier(s): audio:6823; APSdigrec_1680; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 07
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; Ahtena language; Taboo
Date: 1960-08-25

Title: Timberwolf Song
Identifier(s): audio:7031; APSdigrec_1118; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 06
Description: "FdeL asks for wolf song, used to call moose.... Oscar Craig explains that song is engi (taboo). Old-timers don't like to hear it. F thanks them - 'tcInan.' Craig says: 'Really tcInan.' According to informants at Chistochina this was a song, sung to make a peace after a war which the people don't like to recall."; 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; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--History; Taboo
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Another dAsnei Song
Identifier(s): audio:6831; APSdigrec_1694; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 21
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; Dena'ina language; Taboo
Date: 1960-08-25

Title: Annie Tyone's Love Song, Jim Tyone's Love Song, and 'Engi Song
Identifier(s): audio:6766; APSdigrec_1634; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 22
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; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Ahtena language; Taboo
Date: 1960-08-14