Wik Paach Explained

The Wik Paach or Wikapatja are an Aboriginal 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 100mi2, was limited to the mangroves around the delta of the Archer River.

People

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

References

Sources

• Web site: AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia . 14 May 2024 . . .
• Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland . McConnel . Ursula H. . Ursula McConnel . . 10 . 1 . 54–72 . September 1939 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x . 40327744 .
• Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued) . McConnel . Ursula H. . Ursula McConnel . . 10 . 4 . 434–455 . June 1940 . 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x . 40327867 .
• PhD thesis. Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia . Sutton . Peter . Peter Sutton (anthropologist) . 1979 . .
• Book: Tindale, Norman Barnett . Wikapatja (QLD) . Norman Tindale . 1974 . Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names . . http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wikapatja.htm . 978-0-708-10741-6 .