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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: Song for the Thunderbird Screen
Identifier(s): audio:6863; APSdigrec_0602; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 04
Description: "Minnie Johnson explains [that this song] was composed in Tlingit by go.snA', and sung by Frank Italio, q'At'axítci."; Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit mythology
Date: 1952-07-30

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: Resting Song (kwack'qwan)
Identifier(s): audio:7017; APSdigrec_1078; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 07
Description: The words of the song are identified by collector as being "in Copper River Language." This most likely designates Eyak.
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; Eyak language
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Peace Song for Mrs. Situk Jim; to teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6901; APSdigrec_0998; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 10
Description: "Mrs. Situk Jim, Xosal-tla, was miniie's older half-sister. She was taken as peace-officer at the time her son killed Jenny Jack's mother. Mrs. Situk Jim died in 1916. The song was composed by Blind Sampson."
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: Athabaskan Song for Coming Under the Ice on the Alsek
Identifier(s): audio:7081; APSdigrec_1071; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 15
Description: A song supposed to be several hundred years old that is sung when people have successfully passed down the Alsek River under the glaciers.; The words of the song in "Athabaskan," mostly like Southern Tutchone.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Southern Tutchone language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alsek River; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-17

Title: Haida Love Song
Identifier(s): audio:7016; APSdigrec_1081; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 10
Description: "Maggy Harry explains in Tlingit that the song was purchased in Kasaan, from a Haida man named q'ackwe, by B.A. Jack, and Maggy's husband, tcAna-ic, in 1900. 'It's pretty fast.'"
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: Blind Dave's Song to Jenny Dick and to Lituya Bay George; to cAnkuqedi-yAtx'i and kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6916; APSdigrec_1006; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 06
Description: Song composed in 1914 to Blind Dave's daughter, Jenny Dick, who died in 1912 in Seattle. The first stanza is addressed to her; the second to Lituya Bay George, Mrs. C Johnson's father. Song introduced by Mrs. C. Johnson in Tlingit.; 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; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-03

Title: Mrs. Chester Johnson's Song to her son; to Norwegian-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6918; APSdigrec_1009; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 09
Description: "Song composed a few days before."
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: 1954-06-10

Title: Love Song composed by X'adanek' for his wife; teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6905; APSdigrec_0993; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 05
Description: Recording begins with Charley White introducing the song in Tlingit, "explaining that his father used to like drink, and also liked teqwedi-yAtx'i as much as liquor. [X'adanek' died in 1888.]"; Sung together by Charley White and miniie Johnson.
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; Love songs
Date: 1954-04-08

Title: Dry Bay George's Song for dek'ina House
Identifier(s): audio:6902; APSdigrec_1007; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 07
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; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-31

Title: Peace Song for Jenny White's mother; to tl'ukwaXAdi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6904; APSdigrec_0989; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 01
Description: "Jenny White explains in Tlingit how her brother and uncle died of whiskey given by the tl'ukwaXAdi, and how her mother had been taken as peace officer. This song was composed for her. Date about 1901. [It is a Dry Bay song.]" Ends with idenfitication of the song by Frederica de Laguna.; Sung together by Charley White and Jenny White.
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: 1954-03-23

Title: Another Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:6982; APSdigrec_1093; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 06
Description: Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Tlingit Worry Song
Identifier(s): audio:7039; APSdigrec_1094; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 07
Description: "It came from SE Alaska, and was sung at potlatch for Joe's grandfather who drowned in the Copper River near Miles and Childs Glaciers. His grandmother used to sing it. It was also sung by his brother at the potlatch for the latter's wife who died in childbirth."; Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna at end of subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit language; Drowning victims; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-07-13

Title: Mourning Song about the Crane Boat (claimed by both tl'uknaXadi and kwack'qwan), (1 verse only)
Identifier(s): audio:6924; APSdigrec_0999; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 11
Description: In introductory explanation to song, Charley White refers to defeat of tl'uknaXAdi by ganAXtedi- probably at Chilkat.
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: 1954-04-09

Title: Athabaskan Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6909; APSdigrec_1010; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 10
Description: A song from Klukwan, first heard by the singer in 1914.; This song is identified by Frederica de Laguna and 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; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: cAnkuqedi Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:6952; APSdigrec_1026; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 10
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: Litya Bay George's Song to the Bears; to X'at'k'a-ayi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6927; APSdigrec_1005; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: "Mrs. C. Johnson introduces her father's song. He had been chased by bears, his father's totem animals, when hunting."; 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; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Bears; Hunting songs
Date: 1954-05-03

Title: Drinking Song of Clarence Peterson, to tl'uknaXAdi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6900; APSdigrec_1000; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Description: Ends with identification of song and previous song by Frederica de Laguna.; Charley White explains in Tlingit that the composer of the song, who died in 1941, was addressing his wife.
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; Drinking songs--Alaska
Date: 1954-04-09

Title: Kagwantan Mourning Song (incorrect version)
Identifier(s): audio:6910; APSdigrec_1017; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 01
Description: Singer requested to record the song a second time. (See first link under Related Recording.) Recording identified by Frederica de Laguna as at end of subsequent recording. (See second link under Related Recording.)
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: 1954-03-27