MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION
Dates:
1966, 1968
Abstract:
Ahtna and Southern Tutchone songs, stories, and interviews. The majority of this collection consists of Ahtna songs and stories recorded by Frederica de Laguna in 1968. Most were recorded at Copper Center, with additional ones also recorded at Cantwell, Chistochina, Gulkana, and 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. Also includes Ahtna stories, autobiographical accounts, vocabularies, and interviews. There are also some Southern Tutchone songs recorded at Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory. Formerly titled "Materials Recorded at Copper Center, Alaska."
Call #:
Mss.Rec.68
Extent:
27 reel(s)
Subjects:
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Ahtena Indians | Ahtena Indians -- Ethnobiology | Ahtena Indians -- First contact with Europeans | Ahtena Indians -- Folklore | Ahtena Indians -- History | Ahtena Indians -- Hunting | Ahtena Indians -- Music | Ahtena Indians -- Rites and ceremonies | Ahtena Indians -- Social life and customs | Ahtena dance | Ahtena language | Ahtena language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. | Aleuts | Autobiography | Bears -- Folklore | Birdsongs -- Alaska | Burwash Landing (Yukon) | Cantwell (Alaska) | Chistochina (Alaska) | Christmas music | Christmas trees -- Songs and music | Copper Center (Alaska) | Creation -- Mythology | De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004 | Dena'ina Indians | Dena'ina Indians -- Folklore | Dena'ina language | Drinking songs | Eyak language | Folklore | Ghost stories | Gulkana (Alaska) | Han language | Hunting -- Alaska | Hunting songs | Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Dance | Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Languages | Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Music | Indians of North America -- Alaska -- Social life and customs | Indians of North America -- Canada -- Dance | Indians of North America -- Canada -- Music | Infants -- Care | Interviews. | Loons -- Folklore | Love songs | Lower Tonsina (Alaska) | Months | Moose hunting | Mourning customs -- United States -- Alaska | Potlatch | Potlatch -- Alaska | Prohibition -- Songs and music | Raven (Legendary character) -- Legends | Salmon -- Folklore | Santa Claus -- Songs and music | Shamanism -- Alaska | Sisters -- Folklore | Slave Indians -- Music | Slave Indians -- Social life and customs | Slave language | Songs. | Sound recordings | Southern Tutchone language | Speeches, addresses, etc. | Taboo | Tanacross language | Tanana Indians -- Music | Tanana Indians -- Social life and customs | Tanana language | Tetlin (Alaska) | Tlingit language | Tsimshian language | Tug of war (Game) | Tutchone Indians -- Music | Tutchone Indians -- Social life and customs | Upper Tanana language | Upper Tanana language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. | Vocabularies. | War songs
