Editing Huns (section)

===Artistic decoration===
{{further|Hunnic art}}
[[File:Hunnish - Fibula - Walters 57558.jpg|thumb|left|A Hunnish oval openwork fibula set with a carnelian and decorated with a geometric pattern of gold wire, 4th century, [[Walters Art Museum]]]]
Jewelry and weapons attributed to the Huns are often decorated in a [[polychrome]], [[cloisonné]] style.{{sfn|Kim|2015|p=170}}
Archaeologist [[Joachim Werner (archaeologist)|Joachim Werner]] argued that the Huns developed a unique "Danubian" style of art that combined Asiatic goldsmithing techniques with the enormous amount of gold given as tribute to the Huns by the Romans; this style then influenced European art.{{sfn|von Rummel|2007|p=38, 354}} In the 1970s, A. K. Ambroz argued that the polychrome style originated with the Huns; however, more recent archaeological discoveries show that it predates their arrival in Europe.{{sfn|Bitner-Wróblewska|Pesch|Przybyła|2020|p=258}} Warwick Ball, moreover, argues that the decorated artifacts of the Hunnish period were probably made by local craftsmen for the Huns rather than by the Huns themselves.{{sfn|Ball|2021|p=196}}

A now headless copper-plated Hun-period figurine discovered at Bántapuszta near [[Veszprém]], Hungary, shows a man in armor whose pants and collars have been decorated by ringlets.{{sfn|Takáts|1963|p=241}} Archaeological finds indicate that the Huns wore gold plaques as ornaments on their clothing, as well as imported glass beads.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=354–356}} The golden plaques were probably used to decorate the hems of both male and female festive clothing; this fashion seems to have been adopted both by the Huns and East Germanic elites.{{sfn|Rodzińska-Nowak|2020|p=388}} Both men and women have been found wearing shoe buckles made of gold and jewels in Eastern Europe, but of iron or bronze in Central Asia; the golden shoe buckles are also found in non-Hunnic graves in Europe.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=516}}

[[File:Hunnish - Bracelet - Walters 571082 - Detail Front.jpg|thumb|Detail of Hunnish gold and garnet bracelet, 5th century, [[Walters Art Museum]]]]
Both ancient sources and archaeological finds from graves confirm that the Hunnic women wore elaborately decorated golden or gold-plated [[diadem]]s.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=297}} These diadems, as well as elements of [[bonnet (headgear)|bonnet]]s, were probably symbols of rulership.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=516}} Women are also found buried with small mirrors of an originally Chinese type, which often appear to have been intentionally broken when placed into a grave.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|pp=352–354}} Hunnic women seem to have worn necklaces and bracelets of mostly imported beads of various materials as well.{{sfn|Maenchen-Helfen|1973|p=357}} Men are often found buried with single or paired [[earring]]s and, unusually for a nomadic people, bronze or golden [[neck ring]]s.{{sfn|Anke|2010|p=516}}