{"id":"AUSIN-035","label":"Cairns X-ray fish bullroarer","people_or_site":"Yedinjie (?) — probably Yidinji","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Cairns, North Queensland","macroregion":"Australia / Queensland","local_name":"","source_term":"","source_language":"","object_description":"University of Edinburgh MIMEd 3112: a wattle-wood board, 210 x 90 mm, made in Cairns in 1990, painted in ochres with an X-ray-style fish, with its cord.","function_summary":"Secret/sacred by locality: Pitt Rivers bullroarers collected at Freshwater near Cairns are catalogued as secret-sacred men's objects under the museum's 2012 determination; the Edinburgh card records no function for this 1990 painted piece itself.","attestation_type":"museum_specimen","source_key":"review2026","source_type":"museum_catalog_record","source_url":"https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16366","page_or_plate":"MIMEd 3112","map_confidence":"high","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Cairns, the recorded production place.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Made in Cairns in 1990, this board of wattle wood carries a fish painted in the X-ray manner — spine and innards shown through the body — in ochres over a dark ground. Yaderleye of the Yidinji, whose country takes in Cairns, carved it, and the card that came with it reads 'PAINTED BY Gerry.' What it was made for went unrecorded — but at Freshwater, just up the coast, bullroarers of this country sit in the Pitt Rivers catalogued as secret-sacred: men's objects, not for public view.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"","cls":"restricted","class_label":"Restricted","color":"#A43C2F","is_candidate":false,"flags":["initiation","women_taboo"],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":true,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"University of Edinburgh, Musical Instruments collection, MIMEd 3112","url":"https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16366","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261012235631/https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16366"}],"source_citations":"University of Edinburgh, Musical Instruments collection, MIMEd 3112","source_display":"University of Edinburgh, Musical Instruments collection, MIMEd 3112","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"University of Edinburgh MIMEd 3112: a wattle-wood board, 210 x 90 mm, made in Cairns in 1990, painted in ochres with an X-ray-style fish, with its cord.","function_display":"Secret/sacred by locality: Pitt Rivers bullroarers collected at Freshwater near Cairns are catalogued as secret-sacred men's objects under the museum's 2012 determination; the Edinburgh card records no function for this 1990 painted piece itself.","confidence_display":"high","attestation_label":"museum specimen","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"yedinjie probably","display_name":"Cairns X-ray fish bullroarer","image":{"full":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/AUSIN-035_edinburgh_3112.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/review_2026_07_18/thumbs/AUSIN-035_edinburgh_3112_thumb.jpg","credit":"University of Edinburgh (MIMEd 3112)","license":"CC BY 3.0","source_page":"https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/16366","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"A fish painted in the X-ray manner in ochres on wattle wood, the cord looped through the tip (University of Edinburgh, MIMEd 3112)."},"slug":"ausin-035-yedinjie-probably-yidinji"}