What do Navajo people look like? Hair, eyes and skin in 32 observed portraits
Three trait families measured across 32 documented portraits of Navajo people. Each family links to its full distribution.
Catalog portraits for Navajo are AI-generated adult subjects; the measurements on this page come from documented photographs of real people, not from these images.
Navajo hair
n = 26Navajo: hair texture straight in 88% of 26; hair color black in 55% of 29.
Navajo eyes
n = 23Navajo: iris color dark brown in 87% of 23; epicanthic fold present in 56% of 25; eye shape almond in 84% of 25.
Navajo skin tone
n = 29Navajo: fitzpatrick skin type IV in 69% of 29; undertone warm in 100% of 29.
Where these numbers come from
32 publicly documented portraits of notable Navajo 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.