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The Wikmean (Wik Me'an) were an indigenous Australian people, one of the Wik tribes of the Cape York Peninsula of northern Queensland.

Country

The territory of the Wikmean consisted of an estimated 600 square miles (1,600 km2), inland from Cape Keerweer.[1]

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ Tindale 1974, p. 189.

Sources

  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". AIATSIS.
  • McConnel, Ursula H. (September 1939). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland". Oceania. 10 (1): 54–72. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1939.tb00256.x. JSTOR 40327744.
  • McConnel, Ursula H. (June 1940). "Social Organization of the Tribes of Cape York Peninsula, North Queensland (Continued)". Oceania. 10 (4): 434–455. doi:10.1002/j.1834-4461.1940.tb00305.x. JSTOR 40327867.
  • Sutton, Peter (1979). Wik: Aboriginal society, territory and language at Cape Keerweer, Cape York Peninsula, Australia (PDF) (PhD thesis). University of Queensland.
  • Tindale, Norman Barnett (1974). "Wikmean (QLD)". Aboriginal Tribes of Australia: Their Terrain, Environmental Controls, Distribution, Limits, and Proper Names. Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-708-10741-6.