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.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.Guide to the papers of William Henry Gill in the Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW Sydney : Library Council of New South Wales, 1987Revies: Images of the Interior Seven Central Australian Photographers, by Philip Jones Wakefield Press, 2011The Loneliest Shop in the World, the Past Imperfect, Smithsonian blog 25 June 2012Image of store on Panoramio
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.
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