The Wik Paach or Wikapatja are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.
Language
[edit]The Wikapatja spoke Wik Paach, which despite the name, is not one of the Wik languages.[citation needed]
Country
[edit]The Wikapatja were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by Tindale as not exceeding 100 square miles (260 km2), was limited to the mangroves around the delta of the Archer River.[1]
People
[edit]The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974.
References
[edit]- ^ Tindale 1974, p. 188.
Sources
[edit]- "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS. 14 May 2024.
- McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x. JSTOR 40327744.
- McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x. JSTOR 40327867.
- Sutton, Peter (1979). Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.
- Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wikapatja (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.