Tlingit, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone recordings

Culture:
Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Tutchone, Southern
Sugpiaq includes: Alutiiq
Haida includes: X̱aayda, X̱aadas, X̱aad, X̱aat
Ahtna includes: Atna, Ahtena
Language: English | Tlingit | Ahtna | Tutchone, Southern | Tsimshian | Tanacross | Tanana, Upper
Date: 1954
Contributor: Abraham, Olaf | Bremner, Helen | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Dick, Frank | Ellis, John | George, Annie | Italio, Frank | James, Sheldon | Johnson, Chester, Mrs. | Johnson, Minnie | McClellan, Catharine | Peterson, Clarence | Sampson, Blind | White, Charley | White, Maggy
Subject: Alaska--History | Music | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type: Sound recording
Genre: Conversations | Songs
Extent: 10 sound tape reels (9 hr., 3 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Tlingit recordings made in Yakutat, Alaska (Tapes 1-7); Ahtna recordings made at Chitina, Tazlina, and Chistochina (Tape 8 - Tape 10, track 22); Southern Tutchone recordings made at Klukshu, Yukon Territory (Tape 10, tracks 23-31). Includes personal songs, mourning songs, drinking songs, love songs, shaman songs, and children's songs. Recordings from Yakutat called "Aleut" are of Sugpiaq Chugachmiut origin. Collection formerly titled "Tlingit and Yakutat songs." Renamed in October 2019 to clarify presence of recordings from other communities. (NOTE: This material has been digitized and can be accessed online for free by users not physically at the APS Library through a login and password. Please see our Audio Access Page for information on how to request these materials.)
Collection: Tlingit, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone recordings Mss.Rec.30