THEY PUT ON MASKS - Illustrated by Jerry Ingram, Choctaw [SOLD]

THEY PUT ON MASKS By Byrd Baylor. Illustrated by Jerry Ingram, Choctaw.

Publisher: Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1974

First edition, hardback with slip cover illustrated by Jerry Ingram

Autographed by the illustrator, Jerry Ingram

48 pages, each profusely illustrated in color by Jerry Ingram

 From the fly leaf:

“The Indians said,

A mask can change you

Into the Spirit of Thunder—

Into ANYTHING.

You can be Mother of the Earth,

The Maker of Stars,

The Killer of Monsters—

ANYTHING.

You can be the Spirit of

All Growing Things.

You can be ANYTHING AT ALL.

“And thus begins the magic that is Byrd Baylor’s newest book.  She writes brilliantly and with great feeling of the Indians’ use of masks, dances, and songs to speak to the gods of lightning and thunder and rain and sun;

               “You whose day it is,

                  Make it beautiful.

 Get out your rainbow colors

 So it will be beautiful.

“Jerry Ingram’s flowing designs frame his handsome and authentic recreations of the masks.”

Condition: very good condition with a small tear on slip cover at top of spine and on top of back of book.

Provenance: from the library of Adobe Gallery