Nicely Carved Small Wooden Mask, Unknown Origin 1876 lithograph of sun or maybe they include neighbors

or maybe they include neighbors and visitors as well

and paper is not very brittle

as shown in detail photo

28 dominoes total

but I haven't been able to find anything about a Schortmann sign business

Nicely Carved Small Wooden Mask, Unknown Origin 1876 lithograph of sun or maybe they include neighborsI haven't been able to definitively determine the origins of this small, nicely carved mask, which I purchased from the estate of an artist and collector and world traveller near me the closest match I can find, distinguished by the raised rims around the eyes and mouth, is Ngbaka, from the Democratic Republic of Congo. (reference photo included.) This one is of small scale, too small to be worn, but what wonderful carving of those eyes and mouth and