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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: 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: Max Italio's Love Song; to tl'uknaXAdi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6946; APSdigrec_1045; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 07
Description: "The song is addressed to his girl friend, Mrs. Ned James, Sheldon James Senior's mother. The second verse is said properly to have been addressed to one of the shaman, gutcda's, daughters."; Recording ends with Frederica de Laguna's idenitification of this song and the five previously recorded song. See Related Recordings.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-25

Title: Blind Dave Dick's Song, rebuking his brother's wife, to teqwedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6932; APSdigrec_1050; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 12
Description: A song addressed to Mrs. Jack Peterson, accusing her of backsliding as a Christian, because she had quarreled with Blind Dave, her brother-in-law. Recording concludes with an explanation of the song in English by Minnie Johnson.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-04-29

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: 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: 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: 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: Translation of Tlingit story
Identifier(s): audio:6919; APSdigrec_1013; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 13
Description: Translation of "Story and Song about the Frog Screen." See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Folklore; Frogs--Folklore
Date: 1954-05-07

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: Teqwedi Walking Song
Identifier(s): audio:7010; APSdigrec_1063; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 07
Description: "[Song] has Tsimshian words, and was perhaps one obtained about 1900 from Tsimshian sea-otter hunters at Yakutat, because they were sorry they nearly started a fight with the Yakutat Tlingit over a disputed sea-otter. It is used when the teqwedi guests at a potlatch enter and leave the house to which they have been invited."; 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: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--History; Tsimshian Indians--History; Potlatch; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Hunt, George: From Boas. 1921 Oct. 27
Identifier(s): text:65862
Description: Enclosing sketch of a copper from a museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts said to have been bought by Kwagu'ł from the Tsimshian. Asks for any information about it.
Creator: Boas, Franz, 1858-1942
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwagu'ł; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1921 Oct. 27

Title: Hunt, George: To Boas. 1921 Nov. 27
Identifier(s): text:65858
Description: Sending pages 2264-2290 on "rules of the beginning of the engagement." Will return sketch of copper once he receives information on language story should be written in. Explains more about mother's copper, its relation to son David's totem pole in Fort Rupert, and missing figures.
Creator: Hunt, George
Source: Franz Boas Papers (Mss.B.B61); http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.B61-ead.xml
Subject: Kwakwaka'wakw; Kwakiutl Indians; Kwagu'ł; Tlingit Indians
Date: 1921 Nov. 27