{{Short description|Australian ethnographer and outback pioneer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2014}}
'''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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/aa824/AA824-02.htm |title=Papers relating to Australian Aboriginal ethnography SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ARCHIVES |access-date=12 February 2021 |archive-date=11 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411151619/http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/aa824/AA824-02.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="ADB">Philip Jones, 'Aiston, George (Poddy) (1879–1943)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/aiston-george-poddy-9320/text16359, accessed 29 August 2013.</ref><ref name="GillPapers">[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1097875?lookfor=subject:Gill,%20William%20Henry&offset=1&max=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]</ref><ref>[http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2011/12/02/a-close-encounter-with-the-past/ Revies: ''Images of the Interior Seven Central Australian Photographers'', by Philip Jones Wakefield Press, 2011]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museumex.org/oai/sam/2575 |title=Aiston Collection South Australian Museum |access-date=7 September 2013 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130907082219/http://museumex.org/oai/sam/2575 |archive-date=7 September 2013 |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article29900520 |title=ANTHROPOLOGY. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=12 March 1931 |accessdate=5 September 2013 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>[http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2012/06/the-loneliest-shop-in-the-world/ The Loneliest Shop in the World, the Past Imperfect, Smithsonian blog 25 June 2012]</ref><ref>[https://www.panoramio.com/photo/2026195 Image of store on Panoramio]</ref>
==External sources==
* 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.<ref name=DEH>{{cite web|title=Heritage of the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks |publisher=Department for Environment and Heritage |url=http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/pdfs/surveys/birdsville/sections_1-2.pdf |accessdate=28 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080723013724/http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/pdfs/surveys/birdsville/sections_1-2.pdf |archivedate=23 July 2008 |df=dmy }}</ref>
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aiston, George}} Category:Amateur anthropologists Category:Australian anthropologists Category:1879 births Category:1943 deaths Category:Settlers of South Australia Category:Australian police officers Category:Far North (South Australia) Category:People from Adelaide