Wik Paach
{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}}
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.{{cn|date=July 2023}}
Country
The Wikapatja were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by Tindale as not exceeding {{convert|100|mi2|km2}}, was limited to the mangroves around the delta of the Archer River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=188}}
People
The tribe was deemed to be extinct by the time of Tindale's writing in 1974.
References
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- {{Cite web| title = AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia
| date = 14 May 2024
| publisher = AIATSIS
| url = https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/articles/aiatsis-map-indigenous-australia
| ref = {{harvid|AIATSIS}}
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland
| last = McConnel | first = Ursula H.
| author-link = Ursula McConnel
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 54–72
| date = September 1939
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x | jstor = 40327744
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)
| last = McConnel | first = Ursula H.
| author-link = Ursula McConnel
| journal = Oceania
| volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 434–455
| date = June 1940
| doi = 10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x | jstor = 40327867
}}
- {{Cite thesis| type = PhD thesis| title = Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia
| last = Sutton | first = Peter
| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| year = 1979
| publisher = University of Queensland
| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_185462/the1830.pdf }}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Wikapatja (QLD)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| year = 1974
| title = Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names
| publisher = Australian National University
| chapter-url = http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wikapatja.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}
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