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Title: "Aleut" (Sugpiaq) Sun Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7083; local: APSdigrec_1085; local: 07; local: 14
Description: "Maggy introduces the song in Tlingit...'You tell them fine looking girls gonna sing this song.' Laughs. [It is a dance song, in which the dancers pretend to push 'them' around with guns. It was an Aleut - i.e. Prince William Sound Eskimo song - captured by cada, Maggy's great-grandfather in a war with the 'Aleut' near Cordova." The "Aleut" noted are the Sugpiaq Chugachmiut.
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Sugpiaq; Tlingit dance
Date: 1954-05-27

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: Similar Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:6935; APSdigrec_1027; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 11
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: A Tlingit Song
Identifier(s): audio:7058; APSdigrec_1092; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 05
Description: A song by the singer's father, a Tlingit, of the Eagle gIts'i'Iltcha sib. This was a happy song used at potlatches, when the champion dancers and singers were in the center, and the rest danced in a circle around them. Also formerly sung by the singer's elder brothers, Chief Nikolai and Chief Hangita, and Escaldita.; 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: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Potlatch--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Tlingit dance
Date: 1954-07-13

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: Tlingit Dance Song
Identifier(s): audio:7880; APSdigrec_1335; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 43
Description: "Recorded by Jim McKinley (who has reputation of being best singer and dancer at Copper Center) and Martha Jackson, after they had listened to earlier recordings on this reel 8/16/58"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica, and McClellan, Catharine. Atna texts, etc., recorded in Copper Center, Alaska, 1958. (Mss.Rec.31);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Tlingit language; Tlingit dance
Date: 1958-08-16