An antiques dealer who sold a rare African mask for $4.6 million won a legal battle with the elderly couple who sold it to him for $165 without realizing the treasure’s actual worth.

Two of three undergraduate researchers studying the Burke Museum’s African collection stood beside seven floor-to-ceiling ...

The Fourniers sold their mask in September of 2021 to a second-hand dealer for 150 euros, court documents show. ... like a sword and scabbard of West African leader Omar Tall, ...

A dealer bought the African mask from the couple for €150, reselling it for €4.2m. ... The West African country was a French colony at the time Fournier acquired the mask.

The Kamba Ra'anga masks—carved from wood—are both artistic and symbolic, often portraying animals or exaggerated social ...

On the African masks, he said the images were taken mainly from his many copies of the African Arts journal, a renowned publication founded in 1967. Perhaps the journal connects Okwuosa and the ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Local cultural nonprofit Rootead Enrichment Center is hosting their first-ever African Masquerade Fundraiser to fund the programs they offer. Programs at Rootead share a ...