Wiknatanja
{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people of Cape York, Queensland}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}}
The Wiknatanja, also spelt Wik Ngathanya, are an Aboriginal Australian people, one of the Wik peoples of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.
Languages
Wiknatanja was one of the Wik languages.
Country
Norman Tindale estimated Wiknatanja lands to encompass some {{convert|300|mi2|km2}} on the coast around mouths of the Kendall River.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=189}}
Alternative names
Alternative names and spellings, according to Tindale, included:{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=189}}
- Wik-Ngartona
- Wik-Natan
- Wik-ngatona
References
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{{refbegin|30em}}
- {{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 = Wiknatanja (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/wiknatanja.htm
| isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6
}}
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{{Aboriginal peoples of Queensland}}
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