AUSIN-035 - museum specimen
Yedinjie (?) — probably Yidinji
Australia - Cairns, North Queensland
Function not recorded
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. The museum card keeps its makers with question marks attached: carved by Yaderleye of the Yedinjie, most likely the Yidinji, whose country takes in Cairns, and 'PAINTED BY Gerry.' What it was made for went unrecorded.
- Object
- 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
- Not recorded.
- Map confidence
- high - Cairns, the recorded production place.
- Source location
- MIMEd 3112