Wiknatanja

Aboriginal Australian people of Cape York, Queensland

The Wiknatanja, also spelt Wik Ngathanya, are an Aboriginal Australian people, one of the Wik peoples of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

Languages

Wiknatanja was one of the Wik languages.

Country

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

Alternative names

Alternative names and spellings, according to Tindale, included:^[1]

Wik-Ngartona
Wik-Natan
Wik-ngatona

References

^ ^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.