Wikatinda
{{Short description|Indigenous Australian people}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}}
The Wikatinda were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland. They were one of the Wik peoples, but their language is unattested.{{cn|date=May 2020}}
Country
The Wikatinda were a small tribe whose territory, estimated by Norman Tindale to embrace some {{convert|200|mi2|km2}}, extended from the coastal area, south from the Archer River to a distance inland of roughly 8 miles.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=188}}
People
By the writing of Tindale's writing (1974) he stated that the Wikatinda were "virtually extinct".{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=188}}
Alternative names
- Adinda
- Wik Tinda
Source: {{harvnb|Tindale|1974|p=188}}
Notes
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Sources
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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
| date = September 1939 | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 54–72
| 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
| date = June 1940 | volume = 10 | issue = 4 | pages = 434–455
| 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 | year = 1979
| author-link = Peter Sutton (anthropologist)
| publisher = University of Queensland
| url = https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_185462/the1830.pdf
}}
- {{Cite journal | title = Names and Naming in the Wik Mongkan
| last = Thomson | first = D. F.
| author-link = Donald Thomson
| journal = Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
| year = 1946 | volume = 76 | issue = 2 | pages = 157–168
| jstor = 2844514
}}
- {{Cite book| chapter = Wikatinda (QLD)
| last = Tindale | first = Norman Barnett | year = 1974
| author-link = Norman Tindale
| 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/wikatinda.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}
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