Wiknatanja
The Wiknatanja (Wik Ngathanya) were an indigenous Australian people, one of the Wik peoples, Wik tribes of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland. Languages Wiknatanja language, Wiknatanja was one of the Wik languages. Country Norman Tindale estimate Wiknatanja lands to encompass some on the coast around mouths of the Kendall River (Queensland), Kendall River. Alternative names * ''Wik-Ngartona.'' * ''Wik-Natan.'' * ''Wik-ngatona.'' Notes Citations Sources

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Wik Peoples
The Wik peoples are an Indigenous Australian group of people from an extensive zone on western Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, speaking several different languages. They are from the coastal flood plains bounding the Gulf of Carpentaria lying between Pormpuraaw (Edward River (Queensland), Edward River) and Weipa, and inland the forested country drained by the Archer River, Archer, Kendall River (Queensland), Kendall and Holroyd River, Holroyd rivers. The first ethnographic study of the Wik people was undertaken by the Queensland born anthropologist Ursula McConnel. Her fieldwork focused on groups gathered into the Archer River Mission at what is now known as Aurukun, Queensland, Aurukun. Location The Wik peoples inhabited the western coastal area of the Cape York Peninsula between the Winduwinda to the north and the Taior to the south, with the Wik-Mungkan people, Wik-Mungkan on the eastern flank. McConnel's overall mapping was succinctly summarized by James George Fr ...
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