A week ago, onlookers were perplexed by the sight of a barge full of bones floating on the Brisbane River.

“It looks a bit like a giant rib cage. Anyone know what it is?” one office worker asked on Reddit .

The 28 fibreglass “whale bones” were installed on the water next to the Neville Bonner Bridge in front of Queen’s Wharf for the Brisbane Festival performance Baleen Moondjan .

The bones, of which the tallest spans nine metres, were designed by stage designer Jacob Nash and built by Sydney-based company Stagekings for the original production of Baleen Moondjan in Adelaide last year.

“They got transported from Adelaide in double shipping containers, and then we put them together down near Doboy [Bulimba] Creek,” Nash said.

“The barge was already pre-built at that point, with sc

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