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Title: Funny Song about Raven loosing his nose
Identifier(s): audio:7001; APSdigrec_1087; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 16
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character); Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-31

Title: Funny Song about Raven Breaking Box of Daylight
Identifier(s): audio:7073; APSdigrec_1086; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 15
Description: "This is sung as a funny song at the end of a peace ceremony. Minnie ends with a waa! which has to be called out if the peace-hostage makes a mistake or says anything that might provoke bad feelings."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Raven (Legendary character); Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-31

Title: Teasing Song for a Boy (about Raven Women)
Identifier(s): audio:6944; APSdigrec_1032; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 16
Description: "This song can be used to a baby boy, or as a funny song at a peace ceremony."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies; Children's songs
Date: 1954-05-23

Title: Blind Dave's deathbed song to his young wife; to kagwantan-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6965; APSdigrec_1021; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 05
Description: Song composed by the singer's father's uncle's sons--a classificatory brother. He was the son of gutcda, the Dry Bay shaman. It is addressed to his young wife. Song introuduced by Emma Ellis in Tlingit.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-04-01

Title: Teqwedi Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7066; local: APSdigrec_1064; local: 06; local: 08
Description: "[Song] lacks words." Identified in de Laguna's notes as having Tsimshian origins.; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna.
Subject: Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies; Tsimshian Indians
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Peace Song for Frank Italio
Identifier(s): audio:6943; APSdigrec_1024; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 08
Description: "This is the song to which he danced when serving as a peace officer."
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Sitka Peace Officer's Song in 3 parts; to Xas'hItan-yAtx'i and t'inedi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6962; APSdigrec_1030; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 14
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Humorous Peace Dance Song; Raven Washes Himself
Identifier(s): audio:7088; APSdigrec_1067; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 11
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Rites and ceremonies; Raven (Legendary character)
Date: 1954-05-16

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