Bakanh

The country of the Bakanh lies inland on Cape York Peninsula, around the upper reaches of the Edward River. Here, the Pakanh-speaking people belong to a network of communities extending across the peninsula's western watersheds. Bakanh clans inherit ties to particular tracts of country through the father's line, and their totems bind ceremonial obligations to those lands. Gatherings bring them together with neighbours from the Holroyd and Coleman rivers and with the Kaantju farther inland. These relationships carry people beyond their own river country, linking the Gulf-facing interior with communities towards the eastern side of Cape York.