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Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6967; local: APSdigrec_1057; local: 06; local: 01
Description: "Jenny Jack sings shaman's song belonging to t'ek'-ic. The spirit is gAgan-yAtx'i, Sun's Children. The words are Tsimshian."
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Shamanism--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Religion
Date: 1954-05-10

Title: Shaman's Song of tek'-ic
Identifier(s): audio:6908; APSdigrec_0991; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 03
Description: Song is preceded by Charley White's explanation in Tlingit that he is going to sing the spirit cong of his father's older brother, lXagusa [or tek'-ic]. Song is followed by repetition of the words of the song in Tlingit. "The spirit is that of the teqwedi hero, lucwAq, and is called lucwAq yek or laXak'ina yek 'Spirit on top of Yakutat.'"; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-03-23

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6950; APSdigrec_1054; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 16
Description: "Mrs. Chester Johnson introduces the song in Tlingit. It belonged to her father's mother's father, qalaXetl or ltuneX'. His spirit was tlIngit-ani-Adi qu yek or Smallpox Spirit, probably referring to the epidemic of 1838."; Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Smallpox--Alaska; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Another Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6941; APSdigrec_1055; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 17
Description: Mrs. Chester Johnson introduces the song in Tlingit. One of four songs belonging to her father's mother's father; also given by the Smallpox Spirits. The words are in Tsimshian.; Recording ends with identification of this song and the song recorded prior to it by Frederica de Laguna. For other song, see Related Recording. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tsimshian language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Smallpox--Alaska; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6925; APSdigrec_1014; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 14
Description: "This is a spirit song belonging to the shaman, gutcda, and refers to Xat-qwani, Fish-People Spirits."; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:7035; APSdigrec_1066; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 10
Description: "Nick Milton speaks in Tlingit about the song. The spirits were the children of the Sun and of a teqwedi woman whose relatives had all been killed in a war. These spirits came from SE Alaska but passed over all the other sibs. They came first to Xatgawet, a rich teqwedi shaman who lived on Knight Island, and were later inherited by t'ek'-ic who died in the 1880's."; Recording concludes with identification of the song by Frederica de Laguna. This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: kwack'qwan "National Song"
Identifier(s): audio:7052; local: APSdigrec_1082; local: 07; local: 11
Description: (1) Owl's Cry - before battle or facing death(2) Owl spirit song, belonging to the shamans, danAx-ic and ceq, Tsimshian words; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tsimshian language; Shamanism--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Religion
Date: 1954-05-27

Title: Shaman's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6929; APSdigrec_1015; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 15
Description: "This song is also one belonging to gutcda and refers to the Xat-qwani. Not sure that it is not another stanza of [previous] song."; This recording has been identified as potentially culturally sensitive. Remote access and reproduction is restricted. Please contact the Curator of Native American Materials for more information.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit Indians--Religion; Shamanism--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-07