M-FG Tetlin VII 1969
name: label: Collection Creator
content: De Laguna, Frederica, 1906-2004
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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: Oct. 5, 1969
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content: Reel 99
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content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Copy of original recording 'Tetlin VII" (side 1) made by Marie-Françoise Guédon of Tetlin potlatch October 2-6, 1969.

10/5/69

1 side only

songs 1 -30

Guédon's

Drumming by Steven Northway and Tenas Jack

1. ?

2. Nway song

laughter

3. dance for men

plane

4.

(3 drums)

child cries // break //

5. sorry song

(2 drums not quite in unison)

6. Sorry song (old one?)

a man leads off

7. Talk // song (double-beat?)

talking --coughing --laughing

8. song

"Tenas Jack & Steven Northway drumming since the beginning"

9. song

children running //break in copy//

10. drumming --song

("in [?] si ta" ?) //break in copy//

11. "a a --di di" song

[most of singles have gone to dress so these songs are feeble] //break in copy//

12. Sorry Song --(Tubare xene - ?) //break in copy//

13. calls! whee!! Drum rattles --Ave passing out coke to guests. Throw the bottles across the floor.

13a drumming --faint singing

13b. drum

13c. drum

child cries //break --maybe an overlap?

14. song

(everybody dancing) --drum --"Hey hey!" noise "wait!"

15. speech by Andrew Isaac --(mike noises) --(He is really worked up!) "Tainan" [?] clapping!

"O.K! go ahead, one more!"

noise & chatter

16. dance song --"Christmas Tree on New Year" (it's on yet") some sing "Day"

-noises-

17. Song begins tentatively

Steven Northway's Song

- noise - // break in copy, long pause//

18. "Andrew Isaac is drumming" Porcupine dancing (song from Minto)

cries

19. drumming --child cries --song (2 drums) //break in copy//

"Tenas Jack is the 2nd drummer"

20. down-the-line song "I ye ha" "who! who!" laughter

"ho ho ho" --Annie Ewan

21. Steven Northway's song for the girls in Northway

--end on original --
22. Song ends and there is English talk (speech by?) T.J. again a noise of interference (speech continues --by Tenas Jack)

23. Again down the line song (same as #20?) who! who! who!

24. song --(double-beat) slow rhythm --not a sorry song --but a popular one --oo I wi!

25. fooling around

hee heya heya (dance song)

26. song

whee!

Give a hand! (clapping)

Nine calling

27. drum & song

Steven Northway song: "I got a girl" (started song at previous day: "I got a gun" --Then wanted to marry M-FG and sang "I got a girl")

28. song

29. song --a chant

he he he u u u hahaha!

(pitch gradually rises)

(when people with costumes are coming?) (but noise & chatter)

(people waiting for dancers)

30. The Potlatch Song --with very spaced drum beats, very solumn --"u hey uwey" "adjue iyey"