Wiknatanja
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
- ^ 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. JSTOR 40327744.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. JSTOR 40327867.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Sutton, Peter (1979). Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.
{{cite thesis}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - 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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