Agnes Bellinger Tlingit collection
By: collected by Agnes Bellinger
Contributors: KTOO-TV (Television station : Juneau, Alaska); Alaska Folk Festival
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Social life and customs; Dance music; Dance; Tlingit Indians; Tales; Folk festivals; Rites and ceremonies; Musical instruments; Music; Raven (Legendary character); Dance costume; Clothing
Other titles: Tracks along the beach: tales of the raven.; Tales of the raven.
Description: Collection comprises two videocassettes and a pamphlet on traditional music, dance, and other customs of the Tlingit nation of southeast Alaska. One video, produced by KTOO-TV, depicts the Eagle-Raven dancers at the Alaska Folk Festival dressed in traditional regalia that includes headdresses and hats, button blankets, and face paint. They perform six numbers, including an entrance song, clan song, and exit song. Drumming and chanting accompany the dancing. The second video documents a lecture on Tlingit culture given by Agnes Bellinger. The pamphlet titled "Tracks Along the Beach: Tales of The Raven" (18 pp.) was compiled by Bellinger and includes seven tales about Raven.
Notes: Recorded at the Alaska Folk Festival, Centennial Hall, Juneau, Alaska and in a classroom setting by KTOO-TV, Juneau, Alaska, undated; videotaped lecture recorded at unknown location, undated.

Agnes Bellinger Tlingit Collection (AFC 1986/017), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Donated by Agnes Bellinger; 1986.

Tlingit member Agnes Bellinger directs the Eagle-Raven Dancers. The collection documents her efforts to revitalize Tlingit culture through performance, lectures, and writings.

in English and Tlingit.

in English.

Collection guide available in the Folklife Reading Room and online via the American Folklife Center web pages.