Wik Paach

The Wik Paach or Wikapatja were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

Language

The Wikapatja spoke Wik Paach, which despite the name, is not one of the Wik languages.

Country

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

The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974.

Notes

Citations

1. Tindale 1974, p. 188.

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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. JSTOR 40327867.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sutton, Peter (1979). Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• 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.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)