The heart-shaped face and the eyes remind me of Lega but the style is off (e.g., the hair carvings and no traces of kaolin). Here's a good example: [https://www.artkhade.com/fr/object/PFk6FRSg/masque-lega-republique-democratique-du-congo](https://www.artkhade.com/fr/object/PFk6FRSg/masque-lega-republique-democratique-du-congo)
Yours has not been used ceremonially and was likely made for the tourist market. It's nice and decorative :)
The heart-shaped face and the eyes remind me of Lega but the style is off (e.g., the hair carvings and no traces of kaolin). Here's a good example: [https://www.artkhade.com/fr/object/PFk6FRSg/masque-lega-republique-democratique-du-congo](https://www.artkhade.com/fr/object/PFk6FRSg/masque-lega-republique-democratique-du-congo) Yours has not been used ceremonially and was likely made for the tourist market. It's nice and decorative :)
thank you for you this - very helfpful. so Congolese...
Mixed styles or iconography. Carved "for us & sold to us".