This is Chase048.
Types AT0049 Bear and Honey
Motifs K0364 partner misappropriates common goods
K0714.3 dupe tricked into entering hollow tree
Notes
Baer emphasizes that in European ATU0049, "nest or hive is on or in a tree, but in the African versions it can be in an ant-hill" -- see Chase028
Gerber had no parallel, but she thinks it is because he focused on first part "rather than the second part of it, making a musical isntrument out of some remnant of the burned dupe"
Baer cites various examples: meerkat makes instrument from burned partridge's spurs, hare makes flutes from fire-boiled duiker.
So, Baer concludes, "this is clearly an African tale."
Baer also cites Werner: "Hlakanyaa kills a hare and makes a whistle out of his bones, iguana steals the whistle, but Hlakanyana subsequently recovers it"
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