What do Mandinka people look like? Hair, eyes, skin, nose, lips and face in 69 observed portraits
6 trait families measured across 69 documented portraits of Mandinka people. Each family links to its full distribution.
Catalog portraits for Mandinka are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.
Mandinka hair
n = 51Mandinka: hair texture (andre walker) 4C — coily, tightly packed in 59% of 51; hair color Black in 86% of 63; hair density Thin in 44% of 55; hairline shape Rounded in 76% of 51; graying pattern None in 83% of 63.
Mandinka eyes
n = 66Mandinka: iris color Very dark brown / black-appearing in 97% of 63; eye shape Almond in 79% of 66; upper eyelid crease type Double, low (~3-5mm above lash line) in 89% of 64; epicanthic fold Absent in 98% of 65; palpebral fissure slant Slight upslant in 58% of 66; eyebrow shape Soft arch in 89% of 66.
Mandinka skin tone
n = 66Mandinka: fitzpatrick skin type Type VI — deeply pigmented brown to black in 77% of 66; skin undertone Neutral in 59% of 61; pigmentation pattern Uniform in 100% of 66; freckling density None in 100% of 67.
Mandinka nose
n = 67Mandinka: bridge profile (sagittal) Straight in 90% of 67; bridge height Medium in 57% of 67; bridge width Wide in 97% of 67; tip shape and definition Bulbous / round in 99% of 67; nostril shape Flared in 85% of 67; alar base width Wide in 99% of 67; nasal length (proportional) Balanced in 94% of 67.
Mandinka lips
n = 67Mandinka: overall lip volume Full in 60% of 67; upper-to-lower lip volume ratio Lower dominant (natural ratio) in 71% of 66; cupid's bow morphology Soft / rounded in 100% of 66; philtrum definition Defined columns in 56% of 66; mouth width Wide in 55% of 67.
Mandinka face shape
n = 66Mandinka: overall face shape Oblong / long in 55% of 66; cheekbone (zygomatic) prominence Moderate in 94% of 67; cheekbone width (bizygomatic breadth) Balanced in 64% of 66; midface morphology Balanced in 66% of 65; forehead shape (sagittal) Rounded / convex in 88% of 64; jaw width (bigonial) Narrow (tapered) in 45% of 66; mandibular angle (gonial angle) Moderate in 54% of 67; chin shape (frontal) Rounded in 97% of 66; chin projection (sagittal) Balanced in 99% of 67.
Where these numbers come from
69 publicly documented portraits of notable Mandinka people were assessed by a vision model against the full 22-vocabulary schema, one value per dimension. 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.
These rows are not yet in the published catalog dataset, which currently carries the earlier single-row analysis; see the methodology. A family page exists only when at least 10 portraits carry an assessable value.