General Note:
Compact disc.
Sung principally in Haida; some songs in Tsimshian, Nootka, or Chinook.
Previously released in 1986 as LP analog disc by Folkways Records.
Original liner notes including ethnographic information, interviews, notes on the music and transcriptions of the songs in a pdf file on Disc 1.
Formatted Contents Note:
Disc 1. Play song (0:52) -- Play song (1:13) -- Play song (1:23) -- Love song (2:43) -- War song cycle (3:47) -- Love song (1:40) -- Drinking song (2:30) --Drinking song (1:18) -- Paddle song (3:19) -- Haida song (3:12) -- Hummingbird song (3:08) -- Love song (3:06) -- Haida king song (2:40) -- Love song (2:15) -- Love song (0:56) -- Dialogue (7:05) -- Tsimshian song (2:08) -- Love song (1:32) -- Chinook love song (7:30).
Disc 2. Celebration song (6:41) -- Lullaby song (2:50) -- Marriage song (5:07) -- Children's song (2:15) -- Neyland's Pride song (6:02) -- Welcome dance for Edenshaw's potlatch (2:55) -- Dialogue (11:55) --Welcome dance for Edenshaw's potlatch (2:37) -- Tsimshian song (2:00) -- Dialogue (3:42).
Participant or Performer Note:
Mungo Martin (selections 1-8), Tom Willie Johnson (selection 9), Fred Louis and Ella Thompson (selections 10-11), Mrs. Peter Kelly (selections 12-19), and Florence Davidson (selections 20-29), singers.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded between 1951 and 1979 in British Columbia.
CD Music recording