Wik Epa

{{Short description|Aboriginal Australian people}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2018}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2018}} The '''Wik Epa''', also spelt '''Wikepa''', are an [[Aboriginal Australian]] people, one of the [[Wik peoples]] of the [[Cape York Peninsula]] of northern [[Queensland]].

==Languages== {{main|Wikepa language}} [[Wikepa language|Wikepa]] was were used by an older generation of Cape Keerweer people to denote the dialect employed by two clans in the area of the middle Kirke River, and bore the strongest similarities to those spoken by the [[Wikmean]] clan.{{sfn|Sutton|1979|p=37}}

==Country== The Wikepa were a small group associated with the land, estimated at by {{convert|300|mi2|km2}}, around Cape Keerweer.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=189}}

==People== The Wikepa were close to extinction by the post-war period, with only a small number known to be dwelling at an [[Aurukun]] mission in 1958.{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=189}}

==Alternative names== * ''Wik-Eppa''{{sfn|Tindale|1974|p=189}} * ''Wik-Iita''{{sfn|Sutton|1979|p=37}}

==References== {{Reflist|20em}}

===Sources=== {{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 (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 (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 = Wikepa (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/wikepa.htm | isbn = 978-0-708-10741-6 }} {{refend}}

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