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 massive “whalebone” set for Baleen Moondjan was reassembled in Murarrie and floated downriver to Queen’s Wharf. Credit: Markus Ravik

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 c

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