A Lega mask

of delicate proportions, the heart-shaped facial plane with tapered chin and a fiber beard attached beneath the lenticular mouth and straight nose bisecting the notched eyes, the forehead with dot-motif scarification; '143' in white pigment at the reverse; dark to medium brown patina with layered kaolin on the surface.

New York, Center for African Arts, Wild Spirits Strong Medicine: African Art and the Wilderness, May 10 - August 20, 1989 (for additional venues see bibliography, Anderson and Kraemer 1989)

Anderson and Kreamer 1989: figure 52