A Lega Mask, Democratic Republic of the Congo

of oval form, and pierced around the rim for the attachment of a fiber beard, with concave heart shaped facial plane, slit mouth and raised linear nose flanked by pierced slit eyes; aged patina with traces of kaolin.

Acquired in the early 1950s by a Belgian Collector, a former mining engineer in the Belgian Congo from 1939-1958
Acquired at Sotheby's, New York, November 22, 1998, lot 308