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Title: Song sung after passing safely under the Alsek ice
Identifier(s): audio:6899; APSdigrec_1019; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Description: "Emma Ellis introduces the song in Tlingit. It is an old tlukwaXAdi song, apparently sung by Emma's father's mother's brother."; Recording ends with identification of song and two previously recorded songs. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alsek River
Date: 1954-03-27

Title: "Aleut" (Sugpiaq) Sun Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7083; local: APSdigrec_1085; local: 07; local: 14
Description: "Maggy introduces the song in Tlingit...'You tell them fine looking girls gonna sing this song.' Laughs. [It is a dance song, in which the dancers pretend to push 'them' around with guns. It was an Aleut - i.e. Prince William Sound Eskimo song - captured by cada, Maggy's great-grandfather in a war with the 'Aleut' near Cordova." The "Aleut" noted are the Sugpiaq Chugachmiut.
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Sugpiaq; Tlingit dance
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Teasing Song for a Girl
Identifier(s): audio:6931; APSdigrec_1033; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 17
Description: "This song is supposedly sung for her 'grand-children' Becky and Beverly Bremner. Since they are kagwantan-yAtx'i, the names of Leslie Milton and Susan Abraham are mentioned in the song, since these women are also kagwantan-yAtx'i."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1954-05-23

Title: Three Tlingit Songs
Identifier(s): audio:6949; APSdigrec_1060; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 04
Description: "(a) Song composed by Sarah Williams about a white soldier who was stationed in Yakutat during the war, and believed killed in the Aleutians. (b and c) Two songs in English, composed by school girls in Sitka."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Soldiers--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-10

Title: Pet Song for their Children
Identifier(s): audio:6939; APSdigrec_1035; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 19
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Children's songs
Date: 1954-05-23

Title: Dance Song composed by Dry Bay Chief George about Kardeetoo; to gIneXqwan-yATx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6917; APSdigrec_0990; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 02
Description: "Charley White explains in Tlingit that this song was composed by the tl'uknaXAdi in honor of his grandfather's nephew, Kardetoo, who invited the Dry Bay people to a potlatch in Yakutat. [The potlatch was for Mud Shark House. Karedtoo's mother's father was tl'uknaXAdi. Date 1911.]" Ends with idenfitication of the song by Frederica de Laguna, in which song is mistakenly said to have been given by Kardetoo to his guests.; Sung together by Charley White and Jenny White.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Potlatch--Alaska
Date: 1954-03-23

Title: B. A. Jack's Song for the 1931 ANB Convention in Yakutat
Identifier(s): audio:6955; APSdigrec_1039; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 01
Description: 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 language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alaska Native Brotherhood. Convention
Date: 1954-04-25

Title: Song of Slave, gucdutin, (incorrect version)
Identifier(s): audio:6942; APSdigrec_1048; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 10
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Indian slaves--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-07

Title: Song for Coming Under the Ice
Identifier(s): audio:7065; APSdigrec_1072; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 16
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alsek River
Date: 1954-05-17

Title: Song for the Frog Screen
Identifier(s): audio:7085; APSdigrec_1068; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 12
Description: "Mrs. Frank Dick begins to explain the story of how the tl'uknaxAdi found the Frog at Alsek. 'cuxwanAx de xixtc'....'"; For previously recorded version of song, and translation of song and related story, see Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Frogs--Folklore
Date: 1954-05-17

Title: Speeches in Tlingit
Identifier(s): audio:6866; APSdigrec_0597; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 07
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Date: 1952-07-04

Title: The history of the destruction of Angoon
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_3761; local: 07; local: 02
Description: Originally recorded on wire spool, then transferred to open reel tape for the APS by the Library of Congress in 1970.
Subject: Tlingit Indians--History; Angoon (Alaska)--History; Tlingit language
Date: 1950-06-21

Title: Tlingit dictation
Identifier(s): : APSdigrec_6698; : 04; : 05
Description: Tape labelled "LIN-130 SH"
Subject: Tlingit language--Phonetics; Linguistics--Study and teaching; phonetics
Date: circa 1961

Title: Raven Cycle
Identifier(s): audio:6865; APSdigrec_0617; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: "The first episode is apparently that of the birth of Raven, for the key words: dIs (moon, Raven's jealous uncle) at [:35] is heard; kit (Killerwhale, the spirit that told Raven's mother how to conceive) at [3:07]; kun (flicker, the young wife of whom Raven's uncle was jealous) at [11:50]. There is recorded laughter when Frank gestured to show how Raven plucked flicker feathers from the armpits of his uncle's wife - at [12:19]. The second episode evidently is that of how Raven worsted the Owner of the Tides. The key words are: gic (kelp, down which Raven climbed to get sea urchins) at [13:54]; Frank makes a slurp, to indicate Raven's eating the sea urchins at [14:32]; Frank belches at [16:20]; "de awa yel" in falsetto ("That's enough, Raven") at [17:11]; hutc (end)- at [17:34]. The third episode is evidently that in which Raven's "stooge" throws him down the mountain in a box. The key words are: xacaguk' or xacak'ok'w (Raven's wooden ? servant). Minnie interrupts to ask "How does he remember that?" at [17:55]. Tape runs out."; Story resumed on APSdigrec_0627. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1952-08-29

Title: Love song to Teqweydi's and Kagwantan's Children
Identifier(s): audio:6856; APSdigrec_0604; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Description: "This song was composed by Frank Italio. It is sung both by him and by Minnie Johnson. While singing and practicing, Frank became very jovial and held Minnie's hand in both of this. According to the unrecorded explanation, the song was originally composed in honor of Frank Italio's father, Kagwantan-yAdi, i.e. son of the Kagwantan, but the first verse was changed to make it a love song for Teqwedi's children, of whom Minnie herself is one."; 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

Title: Continuation of Raven Stories: Raven's Theft of Daylight
Identifier(s): audio:6874; APSdigrec_0627; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Description: Completion of the story of of Raven in the box, interrupted by end of previous tape. Also includes the story of Raven in the Whale, followed without a break by Raven's Theft of Daylight, introduced by name for Dry Bay, gunaxo (i.e. among Athabaskans). The two songs given during the telling are 'Daylight' and 'I'll break it on you.'; Resumption of story broken off on APSdigrec_0617.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1952-09-13

Title: Explanation of the two preceding recordings; Beaver Song and the songs attributed to cklayaqw
Identifier(s): audio:6861; APSdigrec_0625; Recording Number: 07; 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--Folklore; Quests (Expeditions)
Date: 1952-09-13

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: Tlingit dance song (ya 'eli ya) with drum
Identifier(s): audio:7482; APSdigrec_1382; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 08
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language
Date: 1968-07-19

Title: Raven Story and Songs
Identifier(s): audio:6920; APSdigrec_1016; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 16
Description: Story of approximately 10 minutes in Tlingit about Raven, followed by two songs about Raven stealing Box of Daylight.; Tape runs out before completion of second song.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1954-05-07