Wiknatanja

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The Wiknatanja (Wik Ngathanya) were an indigenous Australian people, one of the Wik tribes of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

Languages[]

Wiknatanja was one of the Wik languages.

Country[]

Norman Tindale estimate Wiknatanja lands to encompass some 300 square miles (780 km2) on the coast around mouths of the Kendall River.[1]

Alternative names[]

  • Wik-Ngartona.
  • Wik-Natan.
  • Wik-ngatona.[1]

Notes[]

Citations[]

  1. ^ a b Tindale 1974, p. 189.

Sources[]

  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
  • 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). "Wiknatanja (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.
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