Image description #1: Screenshot of a blog post titled “Return of the Pikebone Kantele” posted by Kantelaity on August 28, 2025. The body of the post reads, “At last, it has returned! Earlier this summer, Gerry Henkel sent me the pikebone kantele he had made, but it arrived at the writer’s colony broken. Over the summer he repaired it and, after dealing with some problems caused by US Postal Service, it has arrived. It looks beautiful, even in this hazy PDA picture of it sitting on one of my drums:”. There is a broken image icon at the end of the post.
Image description #2: A screenshot crop of a PDF document viewer with the filename “fishbone_completebook”. On the side are thumbnail views for pages of the book “Fishbone: 53 Kantele Tunes for Five Strings” edited by Lani K. Thompson. Within the open page, there is a picture of a pike jaw-bone with 7 strings. This is the first page of 71.
Image description #3: Screenshot of the third page in the PDF document on a half-drained phone at 5:00 with the heading, “Fishbone” and the subheading, “53 Kantele Tunes for Five Strings” followed by the acknowledgements, “This book is dedicated to Hiroko Ara, Scott Miller, John Nurmi, David D. Thompson, Heather Woollard, Lindsey Woollard, Rhiannon Woollard, and to five string kantele composers everywhere.” Below is a picture of a white wooden 5-string kantele in the shape of a fish jaw-bone in profile.
Image description #4: Screenshot of 2 pages. First page has the following text, “Jawbone of a Pike Kantele Photo on Cover ©2005 Jane Ilmola. Pike graphic on cover Credit: © U.S. FIsh and Wildlife Service. Title Page photo of Kantele ©2005 Gerry Henkel. All rights reserved. Except short passages for reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, without permission in writing from the copyright older. Published by Clan Thompson. Clan Thompson 42 Green St. Brigton, ME 04009 USA Email Lani K. Thompson at [email protected]” followed by two paragraphs, “About the Jawbone of a Pike Kantele photo on the cover: This kantele was made by the grand old man of Finnish kantele, Martti Pokela, who was born in Haapavesi. Pokela donated this kantele (and many others) to the city of Haapavesi. The Pokela collection can be viewed in the City Hall lobby and in the coffee shop at the technology village. According to Jane Ilmola, director of traditional kantele and music educator in the Haapavesi school systems, scholars have found information that gives reasonable doubt as to whether the stories of the first kantelle in the Kalevala really originated in Karelia or in the province of Oulu since many of the families of runesingers who sang the songs that Lönnrot wrote down migrated to Karelia from the Oulu province.” and “About the Kantele Photo on the Title Page: American kantele maker Gerry Henkel has his own ‘jawbone of a pike’, kantele inspired by the Kalevala story of the wizard, Väinämöinen. Henkel is the major supplier of kanteles and jouhikkos to people in North America and has made over 1,500 instruments. You can visit him online at www.kantele.com.” The second page is a table of contents with the following: “Editor’s Note; Grandmother’s Cradlesong, p. 1; A Tiskit, a Taskit, p. 2; The Harvest Man, p. 3; Autumn, p. 4; Melkutus, p. 5; Nanon’s Song, p. 6; Amber Hearts, p. 7; Waltz from Lapinlahti, p. 8; Paholaisen Marssi, p. 10; Rykälinnun Laulu, p. 11; Churchbells of Konevitsa, p. 12”
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