Английская Википедия:Ayabakan

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Шаблон:Short descriptionШаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use Australian English The Ajabakan were an indigenous Australian people of the Cape York Peninsula of Queensland.

Country

The Ajabakan's lands extended over Шаблон:Convert around the Upper Edward River.Шаблон:Sfn Ursula McConnel in the late twenties identified members of the Ajabakan, together with the Wikianji living westwards of the Aiyaboto who were living south of Coen.Шаблон:Sfn

Language

The Ajabakan spoke Bakanha/Ayabakan(u), classified by Robert M. W. Dixon as one of the languages of the Wik subgroup of the Northern Cape York PeninsulaШаблон:Sfn A list of words has been compiled by Philip Hamilton as part of a comparative Uw Oykangand and Uw Olkola online dictionary project.Шаблон:Sfn

Social organization

Ajabakan culture was sufficiently similar to that of the Munkan to lead McConnel to suspect that they had only detached themselves from the latter in recent times in order to form a distinct tribal grouping, and one which then formed close associations with the Ayapathu.Шаблон:Sfn Their social groups were divided into two moieties kuyen (u) and katpen (u),Шаблон:Sfn virtually interchangeable with those of the Wikianji.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Efn According to Lauriston Sharp, the Ajabakan ic system belonged to what he called the Group V Yir Yoront typology,Шаблон:Sfn with clans having a single totem, exclusively under its control in terms of choice of ceremonial site, and strong phratric groupings of clans, bound to the totems of their constituent clans.Шаблон:Sfn Clan descent was patrilineal, with; the spirit babies (bukwa nepi) usually located on the land belonging to the father's clan.Шаблон:Sfn The Ajabakan, together with the southern Ayapathu and Koko olkolo, . would come from their respectives heartlands on the upper Edward, upper Holroyd, and Coleman Rivers to meet up with the Kaantju on ceremonial occasion on the Ebagoolah cattle-run. These Kaantju had an important wedge role as a territorial mediator between Gulf watershed and east coast tribes.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

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