What do Mandinka people look like? Hair, eyes and skin in 47 observed portraits
Three trait families measured across 47 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 = 32Mandinka: hair texture coily in 100% of 32; hair color black in 62% of 45.
Mandinka eyes
n = 46Mandinka: iris color dark brown in 100% of 46; epicanthic fold absent in 100% of 45; eye shape almond in 93% of 45.
Mandinka skin tone
n = 47Mandinka: fitzpatrick skin type VI in 94% of 47; undertone warm in 79% of 47.
Where these numbers come from
47 publicly documented portraits of notable Mandinka 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.