The Wik Elken (Wik-Kalkan), or Wik-Ngatharr, were an
indigenous Australian
Indigenous Australians or Australian First Nations are people with familial heritage from, and membership in, the ethnic groups that lived in Australia before British colonisation. They consist of two distinct groups: the Aboriginal peoples ...
people, one of the
Wik tribes of the
Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a large peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest unspoiled wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth’s last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación ...
of the state of
Queensland
)
, nickname = Sunshine State
, image_map = Queensland in Australia.svg
, map_caption = Location of Queensland in Australia
, subdivision_type = Country
, subdivision_name = Australia
, established_title = Before federation
, established_ ...
.
Language
The
Wik-Kalkan language belonged to the
Wik language group.
Country
The Wik-Kalkan lay north of the
Wikepa
The Wikepa are an indigenous Australian people, one of the Wik tribes of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.
Languages
Wikepa (Wik-Epa) was one of the Wik languages. According to Peter Sutton, Wikepa or wikiita were used by an olde ...
, along the coast north o
Cape Keerweer and, according to
Norman Tindale
Norman Barnett Tindale AO (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) was an Australian anthropologist, archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist.
Life
Tindale was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1900. His family moved to Tokyo and lived ther ...
had tribal lands of approximately in extent.
People
The Wik-Kalkan has been described under the name of ''Wikngatara'' by
Ursula McConnel
Ursula Hope McConnel (1888–1957) was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of, the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula.
First trained at University College London, t ...
in various papers. This term actually was a language name, rather than an
ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used ...
, and signified 'my language'. McConnel realized her error shortly before her death, and notified Tindale of the oversight.
Alternative names
* ''Wik-ngatara,'' (erroneous term)
* ''Wik Alkän.''
* ''Wikkalkin.''
* ''Wik-nätara.''
* ''Algan.''
* ''Ngadara.''
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Aboriginal peoples of Queensland