An old character model sheet for Through Death & Love, from 1999.
Please see the description for this piece for background info on this story.

Musuwa is an African Fish Eagle, who's loosely based on the mother snake eagle in The Leopard Son. He nests atop the leopard family's tree, and was a family friend since the days of Habiti's (Hawa) mother. In the latest (and final) iteration of the story, he was renamed to Indinda (Zulu, "Wanderer").

The striped hyena, Tona, was a side character and one of Habiti/Hawa's personal friend. Her role was considered trivial and unnecessary, and was removed by the third iteration of the story.