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The Lega are a Bantu forest people from central Africa, mainly established in the Democratic Republic of Congo, at the east of the Lualaba River, near the boarders of Rwanda and Burundi, in the provinces of northern Kivu, southern Kivu and of Maniema.
The totem of the Lega is the pangolin.

2nd half 20th century - Good 

Mask (1) - Wood - lega boami - Congo DRC 

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