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Language:Ahtna | English | Eyak | Tanana, Lower | Tanana, Upper
Date:1958
Contributor:Billum, Douglas | Billum, Mary Anne | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | George, Bacille | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | Joe, Maggie | McClellan, Catharine | McKinley, Jim | Sanford, Kate | Sanford, Ralph | Stanfield, Fanny
Subject:Alaska--History | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Interviews | Songs | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:8 sound tape reels (7 hr., 31 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in Copper Center, Alaska by Frederica de Laguna in 1958. Includes numerous interviews on autobiographical topics, explanations of Ahtna songs, sleep doctors, and traditional narratives. Also includes vocabulary related to kinship terms. Songs include potlatch songs, love songs, drinking songs, and songs of Tlingit origin. (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:Ahtna Songs and Texts Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska (Mss.Rec.31)
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Language:Ahtna | English | Tanana, Upper | Tutchone, Southern | Tanacross
Date:1966, 1968
Contributor:Brown, Andy | Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | David, Jessie | Ewan, Annie | George, Bacille | George, Nancy | Jackson, Arthur | Jackson, Martha | Joe, Bill | John, Lucy | McKinley, Jim | Pete, Elizabeth | Pete, Mentasta | Peters, Jenny | Sanford, Kate | Sinyone, Jim | Stanfield, Fanny | Tanzy, Jake | Tanzy, Lily
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Medicine | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Interviews | Songs | Stories
Extent:27 sound tape reels (14 hr., 55 min.)
Description: Ahtna songs and stories recorded in 1968 by Frederica de Laguna at Copper Center, with additional ones also recorded at Cantwell, Chistochina, Gulkana, and Upper Tanana material recorded at Tetlin. Includes dance songs, sorry songs, potlatch songs, sleep doctor songs, and others. Includes "Gulkana Potlatch Given by Bill Joe and Kate Sanford for Recovery of Maggie Joe from Illness." Some songs are Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross in origin. Includes Ahtna stories, autobiographical accounts, vocabularies, and interviews, as well as a few Southern Tutchone songs recorded at Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory. Also includes Tetlin potlatch songs recorded in 1966.
Collection:Ahtna and Southern Tutchone recordings (Mss.Rec.68)
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Language:English | Cup'ik, Chevak
Date:1977-1978
Contributor:Moses, Leo | Teve, Gregory | Chimiralrea, Mary | Imgalrea, Rose | Imgalrea, Tom | Kokrak, Mary | Moses, Thomas | Nash, Jacob | Sylvester, Rosemary | Woodbury, Anthony C.
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Linguistics | Music | Warfare
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Conversations | Songs | Stories
Extent:7 audiocassettes (9 hr., 56 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings of the Chevak Cup'ik language made in Chevak, Alaska by Anthony C. Woodbury. Includes autobiographical stories and historical accounts, including a story of the Yukon Wars, tales, accounts of traditional ways, and recordings made in Chevak's Qaygiq, containing conversation, songs, and stories. (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:Central Alaskan Yup'ik, Chevak dialect (Mss.Rec.113)
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Unangan includes: Aleut, Unangas, Unangax̂, Алеу́ты, Унаӈан, Унаӈас
Date:1990-1995
Contributor:Bergsland, Knut, 1914- | Lestenkof, Michael D. | Taff, Alice
Subject:Alaska--History | Linguistics
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Grammars | Stories | Vocabularies
Extent:9 sound tape reels (13 hr., 55 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Interviews with Fr. Michael D. Lestenkof and Stepanida Lestenkof regarding the Pribilof subdialect of Unangan (Eastern Aleut). Includes texts, grammatical elicitations, and readings (with explanations) from Knut Bergsland's "Qawalangim Tunugan Kaduuĝingin" [Eastern Aleut Grammar and Lexicon] (National Bilingual Materials Development Center: Anchorage, 1978) and Knut Bergsland & Moses Dirks' "Aleut Tales and Narratives" (Alaska Native Language Center: Fairbanks, 1990.) Recordings made in Seattle, Washington on cassette recorder, then dubbed to 7-inch sound tape reels. (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:Eastern Aleut grammar (Mss.Rec.199)
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Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Tanana, Upper includes: Kohtʼiin
Tanacross includes: Koxt'een
Ahtna includes: Atna, Ahtena
Language:Ahtna | English | Tanacross | Tlingit | Tutchone, Northern | Tanana, Upper
Date:1960
Contributor:Charley, Tenas | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Sanford, Frieda | Sanford, Mary | Sinyone, Jim
Subject:Alaska--History | Dance | Music | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Conversations | Songs | Vocabularies
Extent:9 sound tape reels (6 hr., 22 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Field recordings made in Chistochina and Copper Center, Alaska in 1960. Includes potlatch songs, love songs, Christmas tree songs, sorry songs, dance songs, and others. Some songs Yakutat Tlingit, Upper Tanana, or Tanacross. Also includes some Ahtna vocabulary. (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:Materials Recorded at Copper Center and Chistochina, Alaska (Mss.Rec.41)
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Yup'ik includes: Yupik, Yupiit, Yup'ik, Central Alaskan, Eskimo (pej.)
Language:English | Yupik, Central
Date:1995-1996
Contributor:David, Mona | Griffin, Dennis | Kiokun, Nan | Williams, George, Sr. | Williams, Elsie David
Subject:Alaska--History | Botany | Fishing | Hunting | Material culture | Social life and customs
Type:Sound recording
Genre:Autobiographies | Interviews
Extent:61 sound tape reels (50 hr., 8 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: (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:Portrait of Nash Harbor, Nunivak Island (Mss.Rec.252)
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Tlingit includes: Lingit, Łingit, Tlinkit
Date:1952
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Italio, Frank | Johnson, Annie | Johnson, Minnie | McClellan, Catharine | Reed, Jack | White, Charley | White, Jenny | Williams, Sarah
Subject:Alaska--History | Folklore | Music | Social life and customs | Yukon--History
Type:Sound recording
Extent:7 sound tape reels (4 hr., 9 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Recorded by Frederica de Laguna in the field at Yakutat, Alaska in 1952. Contains various types of Tlingit songs, including mourning songs, drinking songs, love songs, personal songs, and 3 Dene songs, most likely Southern Tutchone. Includes Raven and other stories with some translations. (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:Recordings at Yakutat, Alaska (Mss.Rec.19)
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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)
Date:1950
Contributor:De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Frank, Elsie | Jones, Billy | Johnson, Jimmy | McClellan, Catharine
Subject:Alaska--History | Music | Warfare
Type:Sound recording
Extent:1 wire recording (43 min.) : DIGITIZED
Description: Tlingit recordings made on 1 wire spool in Angoon, Alaska, 21 June 1950, by Frederica de Laguna and Catherine McClellan. Text, "How Angoon was destroyed in 1882"; translation on typed sheets made by native from recording. Song of the Raven Hat. Three "Tsimshian" songs. The recordings were made by wire recorder loaned by Wenner-Gren Foundation; research the result of funds from the Arctic Institute of North America. (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 recordings made in Angoon, Alaska (Mss.Rec.15)