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Title: Song sung after passing safely under the Alsek ice
Identifier(s): audio:6899; APSdigrec_1019; Recording Number: 03; Program Number: 03
Description: "Emma Ellis introduces the song in Tlingit. It is an old tlukwaXAdi song, apparently sung by Emma's father's mother's brother."; Recording ends with identification of song and two previously recorded songs. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alsek River
Date: 1954-03-27

Title: Song for Coming Under the Ice
Identifier(s): audio:7065; APSdigrec_1072; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 16
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Alsek River
Date: 1954-05-17

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: Explanation of Thunderbird Origin Story; Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6850; APSdigrec_0600; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 02
Description: "Frank explains Thunderbird Origin Story in Tlingit. At [approx. 2:45] Minnie Johnson urges Frank Italio to sing. Mourning soung for go.snA' with rapid beat of cane."; Correction made by collector on later recording that original identification of the language of the song--referred to as "yatqwan XEnaX (old people's language)"--was likely misidentified as Eyak and is instead likely to be "in some dialect of Athabaskan." Frank Italio also identified as "CAnkukedi (or dakAstina) 'Thunderbird Clan.')"
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Tlingit mythology; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30

Title: Explanation of Mourning song for go.snA'
Identifier(s): audio:6844; APSdigrec_0601; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska, 1952. (Mss.Rec.19);
Subject: Tlingit language; Thunderbird (Legendary character)--Legends; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska; Alsek River
Date: 1952-07-30