This collection consists of field recordings made by Lorraine Donoghue Koranda of Eskimo music in Unalakleet, Kobuk, King Island, Mary's Igloo, Kotzebue, Nome, Hooper Bay, Chevak, and Bethel, Alaska between 1962 and 1963. Performers include Joe Seton ; John Nesh ; Rose Ann Nagovanna ; Nanny Kagak ; Paul Green ; Theodore Statuk ; Mary Statuk ; Charles Jensen ; Owen Keerik ; Sarah Kunoknana.

Lorraine Koranda was an ethnomusicologist and one time Music Department Chair at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). She published a number of works, including the book Three Bladder Festival Songs (University of Alaska) and the double LP album Alaskan Eskimo Songs and Stories (University of Washington). Koranda also contributed to Alaskan Eskimo Songs and Stories and Cross-Cultural Arts in Alaska () and Musics of Many Cultures: An Introduction (UC Press).

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