Leilah Babirye

Kinsambwe from the Kuchu Lungfish Clan

2022

Glazed ceramic head with black braided hair and earring, mounted on a rusted metal stand.
Glazed ceramic head with black braided hair and earring, mounted on a rusted metal stand.

Leilah Babirye, Kinsambwe from the Kuchu Lungfish Clan, 2022. Glazed ceramic, copper wire, bicycle tire inner tubes, and found object, overall: 24 1/8 × 12 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (61.3 × 31.8 × 26.7 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez 2023.166

Recto

Not on view

Date
2022

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Glazed ceramic, copper wire, bicycle tire inner tubes, and found object

Dimensions
Overall: 24 1/8 × 12 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (61.3 × 31.8 × 26.7 cm)

Accession number
2023.166

Credit line
Gift of Avo Samuelian and Hector Manuel Gonzalez

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/67390



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