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Title: Similar Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:6935; APSdigrec_1027; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 11
Description: Identified by collector as possibly coming from Athabascan Indians at Dry Bay.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Big Jim's Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7056; local: APSdigrec_1176; local: 10; local: 30
Description: "This is her father's song. He hears bad luck like thunder inside. He hears it that time he start the song. His wife gonna die, his daughter's dead, and his son's wife's dead. Three die in one day. Quick sick. It was at Dalton Post, before the white men came. He heard it (the portent?) down the Alsek at a hil, Sheep Hat, near nuqa-ik."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Jimmy Jackson's Love Song, 1904
Identifier(s): audio:7043; APSdigrec_1080; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 09
Description: "Maggy Harry introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed in 1904, by her uncle, Jimmy Jackson, when his wife, Susie Davis, left him, and his sister-in-law offered to be his girl friend.... This is not addressed to any sib -yAtx'i. It is supposed to sound like the sawmill in which Jimmy Jackson was working at the time. However, it is supposed to be of Haida type, like the conventional songs addressed to sib-yAtx'i."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Love songs; Haida Indians--Music
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Hymn in Tlingit and in English
Identifier(s): audio:6907; APSdigrec_0992; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 04
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Hymns
Date: 1954-03-23

Title: Incomplete version of Situk Train song
Identifier(s): audio:6914; APSdigrec_1003; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Description: Complete version of song given in subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-03

Title: Olaf Abraham's Song, to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6921; APSdigrec_0997; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 09
Description: "[Song] was composed in 1946 when Olaf Abraham's brother-in-law, Young George Bremner, was drowned; and when his former wife had to go to the hospital for an operation." Ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-08

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

Title: Tlingit Song to dakl'awedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:7041; local: APSdigrec_1172; local: 10; local: 26
Description: "The song is sung by a Wolf man to Crow girl, nIsAdi-yAtx'i."; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Athabaskan Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6915; local: APSdigrec_1011; local: 02; local: 11
Description: Recording ends with identification of this song and the previously recorded song. See Related Recording.; Collector identifies words of song as being Athabascan and having been given by Indians at Klukshu to cInkuqedi. The specific Athabascan language is not identified. Most likely Southern Tutchone.
Subject: Southern Tutchone language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan languages
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Marching Song (kwack'qwan)
Identifier(s): audio:7036; APSdigrec_1077; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 06
Description: "Maggy Harry introduces the song in Tlingit. It is one supposedly used as a marching song by the ancestors of the kwack'qwan on their migration from the Copper River; now used by the kwack'qwan when marching to a house to which they have been invited as guests at a potlatch."
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; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: First Stanza of Teqwedi Mourning Song, for men lost getting green stone near Sitka, [cf. Swanton, 1909, p. 46]
Identifier(s): audio:7084; APSdigrec_1065; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 09
Description: Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna.
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: 1954-05-12

Title: Olaf Abraham's Wolf Call Song to his wife; to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6923; APSdigrec_0996; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description: Begins with Olaf's explanation in Tlingit that the song was composed in 1939 because his wife wept when he left her to go trapping. Ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Tlingit Song to tlukwaxAdi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6985; local: APSdigrec_1173; local: 10; local: 27
Description: "Words mean: 'When I die, I'm gonna come back, shake your hand.'"; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music; Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Music
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Blind Sampson's song about Situk Train, composed for Kardeetoo; to teqwedi'yAtxi'i
Identifier(s): audio:6913; APSdigrec_1004; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04
Description: Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna. Incomplete version of song was previously given. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-03

Title: Song in Tlingit about the Drowning in the Aiyan River
Identifier(s): audio:6847; APSdigrec_0616; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drowning
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Pet Song for Harold Gray
Identifier(s): audio:6845; APSdigrec_0618; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-09-09

Title: Song, composed by Raven and sung to Killerwhales
Identifier(s): audio:6851; APSdigrec_0612; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character)
Date: 1952-08-13

Title: Explanation in English of the Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:6864; APSdigrec_0607; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 09
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Tlingit song
Identifier(s): audio:6848; APSdigrec_0592; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1952-06-21

Title: Continuation of Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:6849; APSdigrec_0606; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 08
Description: 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; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1952-07-30