1968-1 Gulkana Potlatch/ Cantwell
name: label: Collection Creator
content: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
label: Collection Creator
content: McClellan, Catharine
label: Collection Creator
content: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958
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content: Guédon, Marie Françoise
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content: Emmons, George Thornton
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content: Frederica de Laguna papers
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content: Frederica de Laguna papers / Series 12: Sound Recordings
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content: June 6, 1968
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content: Reel 46
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content: de Laguna Reel 79 contains duplicate material.
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content: NAGRA 1 track
A. Potlatch for Maggie Joe, Gulkana 6/16/68

B. Jenny Peters Cautwell

June 25, Continued in #2

1968 Reel 1 (on Nagra)

A: Songs recorded at Gulkana Potlatch for Maggie Joe, 6/16/1968

1. short snatch

2. long, ends in clapping

3. ends in clapping

4. short snatch

5. ends in "whee!"

6. song

7. "whoo, whoo" --talk [talk only]

8. song again

9. Beginning with drum alone; then men & women sing --"'ani"

10. Song --TubARA XAnégE.

11. All sing "wineya" --aughter --Mrs. Alfred Adam's sorry song

12. Song --For Chief David --Tetline

13. Women's voices sound above men's (cf. Jenny Peter's song, Cantwell, 6/24, & 6/25)

Big Mark made it Tx song

14. Song --phonograph song --Mrs. Banzonita Billy Henry.

15. Spirited song, clapping. deL asks if it's Tanacross Song.

Sophie Lincoln answers.

16. Spirited song

17. Spirited song, short. No break with next.

18. Song

19. Song; ends with clapping

20. Song. Then talk; no apparent break with next --First Song

21. Song

22. Song --Northway dancing song

23. Song (can hear child cry)

24. Song - clapping - - talk --coughing --doors open & close

de Laguna identifies the preceding songs.

Summary of Recordings 1968

All are Ahtna (Atna) Singers Unless Otherwise Notes

Reel 1, A: Gulkana Potlatch for Maggie Joe. June 16, 1968

[As identified by Bill & Maggie Joe, 7/6/68, pp. 1-3]

1. Short snatch of Northway song.

2. Northern song, ends in clapping

3. Northway song, ends in clapping

4. Short song --not identified

5. TcElali [drinking song], from Up-the-Line

6. Dance song

7. Calls only

8. Up-the-Line song

9. Up-the-Line song

10. Andrew Isaac's Sorry Song for Johnny Frank [Johnson?], c. 1966

11. Lucy Adam's Sorry Song for her Son, Tetlin

12. Andrew David's or Walter David's Sorry Song for their father, Chief David, Tetlin

13. Big Mark's Sorry Song for his Son, Tanacross

14. Mrs. Baznita Billy's Sorry Song for her Son

15. Tanacross Song

16. Up-the-Line song, not completed

17. Kitty David's Tanana Boat Song, Tetlin, not completed.

18. Dance song

19. Up-the-Line Dance Song

20. Tradition first song by Potlatch Guests (Up-the-Line)

21. Buster Jim's Dance Song, Northway.

*22. Dance Song, "Something Follow Me"

*23. Down below song --call for supper[?]

24. Talk only

*numbering becomes uncertain