George Aiston
George (Poddy) Aiston (1879โ1943) 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
- Aiston to W. H. Gill, correspondence, 1920โ40 (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
- ^ Papers relating to Australian Aboriginal ethnography SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ARCHIVES
- ^ Philip Jones, 'Aiston, George (Poddy) (1879โ1943)', 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.
- ^ Guide to the papers of William Henry Gill in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1987
- ^ Revies: Images of the Interior Seven Central Australian Photographers, by Philip Jones Wakefield Press, 2011
- ^ "Aiston Collection South Australian Museum". Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ "ANTHROPOLOGY". The Mercury. Hobart, Tasmania. 12 March 1931. p. 5. Retrieved 5 September 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ The Loneliest Shop in the World, the Past Imperfect, Smithsonian blog 25 June 2012
- ^ Image of store on Panoramio
- ^ "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.
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