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Title: Killerwhale Drum Song of teqwedi sib
Identifier(s): audio:6971; APSdigrec_1042; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 04
Description: Sung with Nick Milton on the drum, Olaf calling the words, and Katy Dixon and Louise Peterson assisting. Olaf Abraham speaks in Tlingit about the song. Helen Bremner then translates Olaf's words. "It is an old [song], belonging to the Teqwedi, and was sung at potlatches, when the Killerwhale Drum was beaten. The drum was made at diyagnuaEt on Lost River and was last seen in 1921. A member of the opposite moiety was hired to beat it."; This song was later re-recorded with correction. (For later version, see first item under Related Recording.) Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequent recording. (See second item under related Related Recording.)
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-25

Title: Tlingit word list and lexical items: #142 continuation and short speech
Identifier(s): audio:3365; APSdigrec_2834; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 03
Description: The speaker was born in Kake, Alaska, with Tlingit as his first language. He speaks in a transitional dialect of Tlingit.
Source: Bessell, Nicola. The Phonetics of Interior Salish, 1993-1996. (Mss.Rec.253);
Subject: Tlingit language; language_documentation
Date: 1994-07-31

Title: The Song of the Beaver Hat [1 of 2]
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_3763; local: 07; local: 04
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--Music
Date: 1950-06-22

Title: The Song of the Beaver Hat [2 of 2]
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_3764; local: 07; local: 05
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--Music
Date: 1950-06-22

Title: The Song of the Raven Hat
Identifier(s): local: APSdigrec_3762; local: 07; local: 03
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--Music
Date: 1950-06-21

Title: Tlingit word list and lexical items: #144-end
Identifier(s): audio:3363; APSdigrec_2835; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 04
Description: The speaker was born in Kake, Alaska, with Tlingit as his first language. He speaks in a transitional dialect of Tlingit.
Source: Bessell, Nicola. The Phonetics of Interior Salish, 1993-1996. (Mss.Rec.253);
Subject: Tlingit language; language_documentation
Date: 1994-08-02

Title: Tlingit word list and lexical items: #1-73
Identifier(s): audio:3364; APSdigrec_2832; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 01
Description: The speaker was born in Kake, Alaska, with Tlingit as his first language. He speaks in a transitional dialect of Tlingit.
Source: Bessell, Nicola. The Phonetics of Interior Salish, 1993-1996. (Mss.Rec.253);
Subject: Tlingit language; language_documentation
Date: 1994-07-30

Title: Tlingit and Haida word list
Identifier(s): text:259046
Description: Field notes taken at Sitka and Wrangell for Tlingit; Howkan, Klinkwan, and Kassan, Alaska, for Masset-Haida.; ACLS collection, item N2.1
Subject: Tlingit language; Haida language
Date: 1900-1901

Title: Tlingit word list and lexical items: #74-142
Identifier(s): audio:3362; APSdigrec_2833; Recording Number: 04; Program Number: 02
Description: The speaker was born in Kake, Alaska, with Tlingit as his first language. He speaks in a transitional dialect of Tlingit.
Source: Bessell, Nicola. The Phonetics of Interior Salish, 1993-1996. (Mss.Rec.253);
Subject: Tlingit language; language_documentation
Date: 1994-07-31

Title: Song composed by Jimmy Jackson for sanAX-tla; to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:7064; APSdigrec_1083; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 12
Description: "Jenny Jack introduces the song in Tlingit, beginning 'aX cAtX...' The song was composed by Jimmy Jackson to comfort Jenny's cousin , sanAX-tla, when she was beaten up by her husband for getting into trouble with Tom John's older brother, kUXt'itc. Maggy says: 'We gonna help her.'"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Family violence--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Song of the Slave, gucdutin
Identifier(s): audio:6972; APSdigrec_1049; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 11
Description: "Minnie introduces the song in Tlingit. It was composed by her mother's father's slave, gocdutin. He gave his master's sib, the teqwedi, the song and the face-paint pattern he used when he escaped. Cf. Swanton Song 68."; 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; Indian slaves--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-07

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: 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: Killerwhale Drum Song
Identifier(s): audio:7023; APSdigrec_1062; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 06
Description: "Nick Milton sings. He said that they had made a mistake in the words of the second stanza when the song was sung 4/25/54. There should be two or three different voices for the song."; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna. For previously recorded version of song, see Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-12

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