A kantele or kannel is a traditional Finnish and Karelian plucked string instrument (chordophone) belonging to the south east Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery along with Estonian kannel, Latvian kokles, Lithuanian kanklės and Russian gusli.
Two five string kanteles by Melodia Soitin (2014). Shape of the upper kantele is more traditional, while the one for kantele below is slightly modernised
Koistinen 38-stringed concert kantele
A man plays a kantele with his fingers in 1930s Finland
"The Kantele Player" by Pekka Halonen, 1892
Finns or Finnish people are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.
19th century Fennomans consciously sought to define the Finnish people through depiction of the common people's everyday lives in art, such as this painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
Man's costume during the Iron Age according to the archeological finds from Tuukkala. Interpretation from 1889.
Väinämöisen soitto (Väinämöinen's Play) by R. W. Ekman. The painting is a depiction of Väinämöinen playing the kantele.
Peasants toiling at a slash-and-burn site in Lapinlahti, Eastern Finland.