Paris museum secures rare piece of Akyè art

The Musée du Quai Branly, the dedicated museum for tribal art which opened in Paris in 2006, has been a key factor in boosting the French capital as a world centre for ethnography in both scholarly and commercial terms.

The museum added to its holdings last month when it stepped in to pre-empt this Ivory Coast statue a…

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