 Despite the aforementioned excavated Noin-Ula portrait indicating Mongoloid lineage of the Xiongnu, Euro-centric observers of Xiongnu culture and history try to place the Xiongnu people in a non-Mongoloid or non-Asian ancestry or descendancy.Among the most important artifacts from Noin-Ula are embroidered portrait images.These shed light on the ethnicity of the Xiongnu, albeit controversially.