Can anyone help ID this mask ?

Here's a 11 1/4" tall by 8" wide mask.It looks to be made of turtle/tortoise shell w/ a wood nose w/ hide & fur eyebrows & beard.The nose is attached w/ 4 brass or copper brads.Short red (crayon ?) inscription on reverse.
The closest thing i've found online are the Torres Strait Islands turtle shell masks but there's too many differences from mine.
Thanks for the help.

 

Just found this Torres Strait Islands mask from the Horniman Museum & Gardens-similar,but no cigar.It’s made from two plates of hawksbill turtle shell,i can't tell if the nose is wood or a section of the shell.

 

It reminds me of Shamanic masks from Nepal. No idea about the writing though. Mees is a Dutch word.

 

Thanks AJ-does 'Mees' mean 'Titmouse' in English perhaps ? Apparently 'Mees' means 'Man' in Estonian.
I'll start looking at Nepalese Shaman's Masks.

 

Google translates it into the English as 'tit'...so 'tho it might be Dutch, it may also be another language...with an entirely different meaning.

 

You an' I are hammering Google Translate simultaneously, Bosko!

 

Yes, it does. Mees is also a boy's name.

As in the bird, not anatomical. English is a strange language.

I don't think any of this has anything to do with the mask, unless Mees was a former owner.

 

I think a Mees might have owned this piece ?
'Mees' is a Dutch short form of the Hebrew name Bartholomew. In Dutch 'Mees' also is boy's name meaning "son of Talmai"-a popular Dutch name that reflects the short, clipped style in vogue in that country.
Hopefully this is not an accurate likeness of young Mees !

 

Don't know about mees in Dutch, but in Norwegian 'meis' means tit, as in blue tit, coal tit, great tit etc.
As for the mask being from Nepal, unlikely I think, as Nepal is land locked, so any turtle shell would have to be inported and therefore costly to the locals.

 

With the wooden nose it could be from our prolific friends to the south-Mexico ?
PS-I wish it was Torres Island but that'd be my Powerball win for this lifetime !

 

The Dutch word 'meis' means girl. Also meisje, but meis for short.

 

Nepal has 17 species .... https://www.inaturalist.org/guides/8873

 

I didn't see that before. Attention span of a titmouse.

That's OK then. Some beauties too.

 

Nepalese Turtles-cool ! My Doctors from Kathmandu-she shows me pics from her yearly visits & I'm trying to wrangle a family invite,although at that attitude ?!