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Title: Camp Robber (Canada Jay)'s song, when one is going to kill a moose
Identifier(s): audio:7503; APSdigrec_1394; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 02
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena language; Moose hunting; Hunting songs
Date: 1968-07-04

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: Andy Brown's own Love Song for his cousin
Identifier(s): audio:7657; APSdigrec_1507; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Love songs
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: Litya Bay George's Song to the Bears; to X'at'k'a-ayi-yAtx'i
Identifier(s): audio:6927; APSdigrec_1005; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 05
Description: "Mrs. C. Johnson introduces her father's song. He had been chased by bears, his father's totem animals, when hunting."; Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Indians of North America--Alaska; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Bears; Hunting songs
Date: 1954-05-03

Title: Fanny's Mother's Song
Identifier(s): audio:7082; APSdigrec_1091; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 04
Description: "This song was not composed by her mother, but was one her mother used to sing. It was learned from the Eyak?"; Recording concludes with identification of this song and the three preceding ones by Frederica de Laguna. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance
Date: 1954-07-12

Title: Up-the-Line Song
Identifier(s): audio:7012; APSdigrec_1106; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 19
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest. Information identifying the song is missing from the collector's accompanying documentation. Available information gathered from recording itself.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Upper Tanana language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: B.A. Jack's Song
Identifier(s): audio:6956; APSdigrec_1059; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 03
Description: A song composed by B A Jack when he was lonesome on a hunting trip near Mt. St. Elias. He gave her the song when he died. He died about 1948. The song was composed about 1909. The song is explained by Sarah Williams in Tlingit.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-05-10

Title: Tanana River Dancing Song
Identifier(s): audio:7008; APSdigrec_1103; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 16
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest. Information identifying the song is missing from the collector's accompanying documentation. Available information gathered from recording itself.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Dance; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: About Ghosts
Identifier(s): audio:7674; APSdigrec_1538; Recording Number: 20; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena Indians--Folklore; Ghost stories
Date: 1968-08-17

Title: Song to FdeLaguna
Identifier(s): audio:6933; APSdigrec_1056; Recording Number: 05; Program Number: 18
Description: "Mrs. Chester Johnson sings 1 stanza, just composed by herself, to an old tune, addressed to FdeL; to tcicqedi-yAtx'i."; Recording ends with identification of song by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Worry Song:;
Identifier(s): audio:6997; local: APSdigrec_1129; local: 09; local: 17;
Description: "Jim McKinley explains; 'At Mentasta, 2-3 womens. Their father died one time and they make that song. All die.'"; Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest.;
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Ahtena Indians--Music; Ahtena Indians--Social life and customs; Ahtena language;
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Martha dictates the words to Frank Charley's song
Identifier(s): audio:7502; APSdigrec_1399; Recording Number: 07; Program Number: 04
Description: Dictation in Ahtena of words to Frank Charley's Song for Sanford Charley, recorded earlier on the same tape. See Related Recording.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music
Date: 1968-07-31

Title: Athabaskan Drinking Song
Identifier(s): audio:6915; local: APSdigrec_1011; local: 02; local: 11
Description: Recording ends with identification of this song and the previously recorded song. See Related Recording.; Collector identifies words of song as being Athabascan and having been given by Indians at Klukshu to cInkuqedi. The specific Athabascan language is not identified. Most likely Southern Tutchone.
Subject: Southern Tutchone language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Drinking songs--Alaska; Athapascan Indians--Alaska--Music; Athapascan languages
Date: 1954-06-10

Title: Kate Sanford's song for her sister, Maggie Joe, when the latter was sick
Identifier(s): audio:7533; APSdigrec_1403; Recording Number: 09; Program Number: 01
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-07-21

Title: Identification of recording
Identifier(s): audio:7054; local: APSdigrec_1169; local: 10; local: 23
Description: Frederica de Laguna identifies previously recorded songs and the present occasion.; Recorded at Beloud's, near Klukshu, Yukon Territory.
Subject: Indians of North America--Yukon--Music
Date: 1954-08-31

Title: Tanana River Song
Identifier(s): audio:7049; APSdigrec_1104; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 17
Description: Recorded at Tazlina Song Fest. Information identifying the song is missing from the collector's accompanying documentation. Available information gathered from recording itself.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Tlingit and Yakutat songs, etc., 1954. (Mss.Rec.30);
Subject: Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Social life and customs; Tanacross language
Date: 1954-08-05

Title: Sorry Song for Johnny Frank of Tanacross, 1966
Identifier(s): audio:7655; APSdigrec_1509; Recording Number: 19; Program Number: 03
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1968-08-15

Title: First Stanza of Teqwedi Mourning Song, for men lost getting green stone near Sitka, [cf. Swanton, 1909, p. 46]
Identifier(s): audio:7084; APSdigrec_1065; Recording Number: 06; Program Number: 09
Description: 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: Tlingit language; Tlingit Indians--Alaska--Music; Mourning customs--United States--Alaska
Date: 1954-05-12

Title: Yakutat Song, to Tcicqedi-yAtxi (1930)
Identifier(s): audio:7568; APSdigrec_1466; Recording Number: 12; Program Number: 21
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Tlingit language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music
Date: 1968-08-10

Title: Boreal Owl (laitcI') Song, when he wants to get moose
Identifier(s): audio:7694; APSdigrec_1574; Recording Number: 23; Program Number: 01
Description: Recording begins with introduction to recording session by Frederica de Laguna.
Source: De Laguna, Frederica. Materials recorded at Copper Center, Alaska, 1968. (Mss.Rec.68);
Subject: Ahtena language; Ahtena Indians--Music; Indians of North America--Alaska--Music; Hunting songs
Date: 1968-08-23