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Windradyne ( 1800 – 21 March 1829) was an Aboriginal warrior and resistance leader of the Wiradjuri nation, in what is now central-western New South Wales, Australia; he was also known to the British settlers as Saturday. Windradyne led his people in the ''Bathurst War'', a frontier war between his clan and British settlers.〔 ==Description== Although only limited information about Windradyne is available, mainly from the contemporary British accounts, it is possible to put together an approximate description of the man. Windradyne's date of birth is unknown, but on his death in 1829 his obituary in the ''The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser''—thought to be by his settler friend George Suttor from 'Brucedale Station' north of Bathurst—stated "His age did not, I think, exceed 30 years",〔 thus putting his year of birth at approximately 1800. Coe's biography of Windradyne from 1989 states that he was handsome and well built, with broad shoulders and muscular limbs. He had dark brown skin, thick black curly hair, and a long beard. He typically wore a headband, and had his beard plaited into three sections.〔 Quoted in 〕 However, Coe's description does not fully correlate with a drawing of a Wiradjuri warrior that is thought to depict Windradyne. When Windradyne visited Parramatta to meet with Governor Thomas Brisbane in December 1824, the ''Sydney Gazette'' (using the British appellation for him of ''Saturday'') wrote that: At the same event, another observer wrote that he was "a very fine figure , very muscular ... a good model for the figure of Apollo".〔 Writing in his obituary, George Suttor described Windrodyne's appearance and character as: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Windradyne」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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