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Title: Notes on songs recorded in 1954
Identifier(s): text:295403
Description: Notes to and transcripts of reels 1-7 of Recording Collection 30 (Mss.Rec.30).
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004et al
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1954

Title: Classification of all Yakutat-Tlingit songs recorded in 1952 and 1954
Identifier(s): text:295404
Description: Indexes songs of Recording Collection 19 (Mss.Rec.19) and Recording Collection 30 (Mss.Rec.30) as Potlatch, Mourning, Sad, Walking, Dancing, Peace, Sitting Down, Love, Miscellaneous, Shaman, Funny, and Children's Songs.
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004et al
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1954

Title: Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska
Identifier(s): text:172768
Description: Table of contents and notes for field recordings. (See collection Mss.Rec.19). Notes to reels 1-4. Contains songs, stories with some translations, mostly Tlingit. 3 Athabaskan songs.
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1952

Title: Notes on Tlingit recordings made in Angoon, Alaska
Identifier(s): text:295337
Description: Accompanies Mss.Rec.15, "Tlingit recordings made in Angoon, Alaska." Printed in part: BAE Bulletin 172, pp. 169-171.
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004et al
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1950-1954

Title: Tlingit and Yakutat songs
Identifier(s): text:295402
Description: Table of contents and general transcript to Recording Collection 30 (Mss.Rec.30).
Creator: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004et al
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1954

Title: Chilcat vocabulary
Identifier(s): text:172763
Description: Notes taken from Louis Shotridge. 62 items.
Creator: Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939
Source: American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society (Mss.497.3.B63c); http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.497.3.B63c-ead.xml
Subject: Tlingit language
Date: 1914-04-24

Title: Chilkat Tlingit blanket
Identifier(s): graphics:7512
Description: Black-and-white photograph of Chilkat Tlingit blanket (identified as item HD 182) at National Museum of Ethnography in Copenhagen.
Creator: Bengtoson, Sophus
Subject: Tlingit Indians
Date: circa 1925

Title: Niblack, Albert P.: To Boas. 1888 Nov. 15
Identifier(s): text:92565
Subject: Tlingit Indians
Date: 1888 Nov. 15

Title: John Ellis tells story about lket'titc
Identifier(s): audio:6922; APSdigrec_1002; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: Recording ends with identification by Frederica de Laguna of this text and the preceding story. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1954-03-25

Title: John Ellis tells story of daXodzu
Identifier(s): audio:6906; APSdigrec_1001; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 01
Description: Text identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded story. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Folklore
Date: 1954-03-25

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: Thunder Blanket Song
Identifier(s): audio:6934; APSdigrec_1053; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 15
Description: Recording ends with identification of this song and the song recorded prior to it by Frederica de Laguna. For other song, see Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Dry Bay Chief George's Song to his young girl friend
Identifier(s): audio:7030; APSdigrec_1076; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 05
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Blind Dave's Song when his brother & nephew died
Identifier(s): audio:6945; APSdigrec_1034; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 18
Description: A song composed by Blind Dave of Dry Bay when his younger brother and his nephew were poisoned by whisky in one day.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-23

Title: Song for the Haven Post
Identifier(s): audio:6954; APSdigrec_1031; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 15
Description: "It is a very old [song] belonging to the tl'uknaXAdi."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-17

Title: Emma Ellis' Own Song; to teqwedi-yAtxi'i and kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6958; APSdigrec_1022; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 06
Description: "Emma Ellis introduces the song in Tlingit. She composed it in 1907 when she was 11 years olds, when her father and mother drowned. The first stanza refers to her father's death; the second stanza is addressed to her dead husband and was composed about 1913; the third stanza was improvised on the spot and sung to FdeL."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-11

Title: Jenny Jack's Own song, to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6953; APSdigrec_1058; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Description: "This song was composed in 1939 when George Bremner, her husband's nephew, was drowned in Ankaw."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-10

Title: Thunder Blanket Song, cInkuqedi
Identifier(s): audio:6957; APSdigrec_1052; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 14
Description: "Mrs. C. Johnson introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed before her mother was born.... Only one stanza is sung. Mrs. C.J. didn't want to record the second."; Song identified by Frederica de Laguna at the end of the subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Mrs. Chester Johnson's Song to teqwedi-yAtx'i, yAnyedi-yAtx'i, and cAnkuqedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6960; APSdigrec_1047; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 09
Description: "[Song] was composed in 1942 when her first husband died, and she had to go to Juneau for an operation. The secord verse is addresed to Maggy Harry who was also undergoing an operation." Recording ends with identification song and previously recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-29

Title: Dry Bay George's Song, to gIneX-qwan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:7004; APSdigrec_1074; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 18
Description: "This was composed by tlIngit-ani-kina, the brother of Dry Bay Chief George."; Recording cuts off before completion of program.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-17