The wooden mask was found in a cupboard ... There are some 90,000 African artefacts in France, most from sub-Saharan Africa.

The 19th-Century wooden mask was probably acquired "in unknown ... But the court also rejected that argument. The West African country was a French colony at the time Fournier acquired the mask.

A University of Oxford museum will not display an African mask because the culture ... in certain public or community contexts”. The wooden mask has been given the label “must not be seen ...