But the mask turned out to be a rare piece of African art — a 19th-century Ngil mask used in rituals by the Fang people in Gabon, with only a handful of such pieces in existence. Only about a ...

A retired couple sold a seemingly worthless - in their opinion - African mask to a local ... retirees had been keeping a very rare copy of a ceremonial mask of the Fang tribe from the 19th century ...