Comparable pipes attributed to Fang in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris, have acquisition dates pre-1886, e.g. N° inventaire : 71.1886.77.57.

Guiral (1889) illustrates one of these among the Teke (between pages 152 and 153), labelled "pipe de Rinkonna."

Kingsley (1897, pg 322), Fang "pipes are sometimes made of iron very neatly. I should imagine they smoked hot, but of this I have no knowledge. One of my Ajumba friends got himself one of these pipes when we were in Efoua, and that pipe was, on and off, a curse to the party. Its owner soon learnt not to hold it by the bowl, but by the wooden stem, when smoking it ; the other lessons it had to teach he learnt more slowly. He tucked it, when he had done smoking, into the fold in his cloth, until he had had three serious conflagrations raging round his middle. And to the end of the chapter, after having his last pipe at night with it, he would lay it on the ground, before it was cool. He learnt to lay it out of reach of his own cloth, but his fellow Ajumbas and he himself persisted in always throwing a leg on to it shortly after, and there was another row."