George (Poddy) Aiston (1879–1943) was an Australian ethnographer and outback pioneer who spent much of his life as policeman in the South Australian town of Mulka on the Birdsville Track.[1][2] [3][4][5][6][7][8]

External sources

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  • Aiston to W. H. Gill, correspondence, 1920–40 (State Library of New South Wales)
  • Savage, Life in Central Australia ; compiled by George Aiston and George Horne, edited and published by David M. Welsh, London, Macmillan, 1924.
  • The Aboriginal narcotic pitcheri George Aiston. Sydney, Australian National Research Council, 1930
  • The Mulka Store ruins is listed on the South Australian state register of heritage places.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Papers relating to Australian Aboriginal ethnography SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ARCHIVES
  2. ^ Philip Jones, 'Aiston, George (Poddy) (1879–1943)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/aiston-george-poddy-9320/text16359, accessed 29 August 2013.
  3. ^ Guide to the papers of William Henry Gill in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1987
  4. ^ Revies: Images of the Interior Seven Central Australian Photographers, by Philip Jones Wakefield Press, 2011
  5. ^ "Aiston Collection South Australian Museum". Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
  6. ^ "ANTHROPOLOGY". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 12 March 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 5 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ The Loneliest Shop in the World, the Past Imperfect, Smithsonian blog 25 June 2012
  8. ^ Image of store on Panoramio
  9. ^ "Heritage of the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks" (PDF). Department for Environment and Heritage. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 28 June 2008.