'PODDY AISTON', Lyndall Hendrikson, The Chronical, 22 August 1969

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Type: Newspaper clippings, Photocopies
Date: 22 August 1969
Materials: Ink, Paper
Collection: Horne-Bowie collection
Accession number: AR00078.001

Description

A two pages black and white photocopy of a newspaper article from The Chronicle titled ''PODDY' AISTON / Legend Along The / Birdsville Track'. On the second page the headline reads 'Author - Anthropologist - Collector - Pastoralist - Photographer - Policeman'. Shown within the article are pictures of an elderly man with glasses, a man and an elderly woman having tea and coffee, three arrow shaped stones, a man in a suit involved in an Aboriginal ceremony demonstration, and a man standing side-on dressed in ceremonial attire holding a bow. The article was written by Lyndall Hendrikson.

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