George (Poddy) Aiston (1879–1943) was an Australian

ethnographer Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

and outback pioneer who spent much of his life as policeman in the South Australian town of Mulka on the

Birdsville Track The Birdsville Track is an outback road in Australia. The track runs between Birdsville in south-western Queensland and Marree, a small town in the north-eastern part of South Australia. It traverses three deserts along the route, the Strzel ...

.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. Guide to the papers of William Henry Gill in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1987
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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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aiston, George Amateur anthropologists Australian anthropologists 1879 births 1943 deaths Settlers of South Australia Australian police officers Far North (South Australia) People from Adelaide