Summary
General Registration Certificate for Lindsay Motherwell to carry his drum kit from Rhodesia into South Africa in 1966. Lindsay had a six month contract to play music in South Africa. Lindsay Motherwell was a drummer who travelled through Africa playing music, and settled in South Africa from 1967-1969, before returning to Australia via London.
Sylvia Boyes (a South African-born orphan) and Lindsay Motherwell (a Melbourne-born drummer) met in Cape Town, South Africa in 1967 through their theatre connections. They fell in love but due to apartheid laws were forced to leave South Africa to marry in London. They subsequently relocated permanently to Melbourne in 1970.
Physical Description
General Registration Certificate itemising drum kit, including all the pieces, as well as Lindsay's address in Rhodesia. Stamped and signed 28 Jul 1966.
Significance
Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection provides a significant opportunity to represent political and personal freedom as a motivation for migrating to Australia within the international context of both apartheid in South Africa and the end of the White Australia policy in Australia. The personal narrative is well documented and the objects provide a material way to follow the lives of both Lindsay and Sylvia, both separately and where they coincide in South Africa and onwards together to Melbourne. While this is ultimately a love story, it plays out through the collection against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, sixties London and an increasingly multicultural Australia.
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1 RODGERS DRUM KIT SERIAL NO 29023 (ASSESSORIES) 1 BASS DRUM + COVER 1 PREMIER CYMBAL STAND 1 TOM TOM 14"x10" + COVER 2x14" AVIOIS ZILJIAN CYMBAL 1 TOM TOM 18"x22" + COVER 1x18" " " CYMBAL 1 SNARE DRUM 1x20" " " CYMBAL 1 SNARE DRUM STAND 1 RODGERS FOOT PEDAL 1 COLLAPSIBLE STOOL 1 " CYMBAL HOLDER 1 COW BELL 1 HIGH-HAT CYMBAL STAND 28 PAGE HOUSE MAZOE ST. SALISBURY to SOUTH AFRICA SIX MONTHS MUSICAL ENGAGEMENT
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Object Dimensions
253 mm (Length), 203 mm (Width)
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Keywords
South African Immigration, Travel, Musicians, Jazz Bands, Working Life, Apartheid, Racism, Immigration Policies, Transport, Exports, Musical Instruments