Masked Gods by Frank Waters

From the website of Ohio University Press:

Masked Gods is a vast book, a challenging and profoundly original account of the history, legends, and ceremonialism of the Navajo and Pueblo Indians of the Southwest. Following a brief but vivid history of the two tribes through the centuries of conquest, the book turns inward to the meaning of Native American legends and ritual—Navajo songs, Pueblo dances, Zuni kachina ceremonies. Enduring still, these rituals and ceremonies express a view of life, of man’s place in the creation, which is compared with Taoism and Buddhism—and with the aggressive individualism of the Western world.

The book was written by Frank Waters (1902–1995) and first published in 1950. Shown here is the paperback edition published in 1970 by Ballantine in their Ballantine Walden Edition, a series “aimed primarily at a college audience”. The cover design by Jim Driver features a photo of buffalo dancers by the New Mexico Department of Development. The bold caps with double inline are from Metropolis licht, a design by Willy Schwerdtner that was first cast by Stempel in 1928, and copied by Baltotype under the name Homewood.