What do Kikuyu people look like? Hair, eyes and skin in 34 observed portraits
3 trait families measured across 34 documented portraits of Kikuyu people. Each family links to its full distribution.
Catalog portraits for Kikuyu are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.
Kikuyu hair
n = 29Kikuyu: hair texture coily in 79% of 29; hair color black in 71% of 34.
Kikuyu eyes
n = 34Kikuyu: iris color dark brown in 100% of 34; epicanthic fold absent in 100% of 34; eye shape almond in 100% of 34.
Kikuyu skin tone
n = 34Kikuyu: fitzpatrick skin type VI in 74% of 34; undertone warm in 97% of 34.
Where these numbers come from
34 publicly documented portraits of notable Kikuyu people were assessed by a vision model against the catalog vocabulary, one row per portrait. Values are what the photographs show, read by a model, not population measurements. Each table counts only portraits where the value could be assessed; covered, obscured and unclear portraits are reported separately.
Notable-people corpora skew older, so hair color over-represents gray and white, and image quality varies. Treat shares as a description of this sample.
The same rows are published as image_observations in the catalog dataset; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.