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.
Recordings made in Yakutat, Alaska in 1954. Includes personal songs, mourning songs, drinking songs, love songs, shaman songs, and children's songs. Most songs are Tlingit, with some of Haida, Ahtna, and Southern Tutchone origin.