Parkes heard this story in St. Ann Parish. Wona, 62–67, tells how
Anansi steals Monkey’s clothes and passes the theft off on “Bone.”
Compare: Tremearne, FL 21:352; Harris, Nights; 68–74; Parsons, Sea
Islands, 145; JAFL 32:366.
The common theme of teaching to an unsuspecting comrade an
incriminating song (as in Parsons, Sea Islands, 145) is here emphasized
by a second intrigue, that of the sheep-skin suit. The idea seems
related to the next number. In Wona, 30–36, Tacoomah puts on a
sheep-skin and hides in the fold from which the sheep are being stolen,
Anansi ties and accuses him because he wears the sheep-skin.