Navajo hair: texture and color in 26 observed portraits
Navajo: hair texture straight in 88% of 26; hair color black in 55% of 29.
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.
Hair texture
n = 26 assessable · 6 not assessableAndre Walker hair-texture classification covering the spectrum from straight (Type 1) to coily (Type 4), with subdivisions A-C within each numbered type.
| Value | Share | n | |
|---|---|---|---|
| straightStraight with medium body. | 88% | 23 | |
| wavyDefined S-waves; medium texture. | 12% | 3 |
Vocabulary: Hair texture (Andre Walker) (andre_walker_1990s)
Hair color
n = 29 assessable · 3 not assessablePredominant natural hair color, where determinable. Visibly dyed hair should be flagged via grooming-state metadata.
| Value | Share | n | |
|---|---|---|---|
| blackVery dark hair appearing black under normal lighting; high eumelanin. | 55% | 16 | |
| light/medium brownLight-brown to caramel range. | 7% | 2 | |
| gray/whiteVisibly graying hair, mixed pigmented and unpigmented. | 38% | 11 |
Vocabulary: Hair color (hair_color_qualitative)
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. Mean model confidence for this family: 0.68. 25% of portraits are high quality.
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.