Presumably someone, at some point, has gone through film history and compiled the various visual signifiers of 'barbarians' (the random furs, lots of leather, facial hair, etc) origins/implications/etc? Don't suppose anyone has bibliography on that handy?
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"They did carry small wooden shields called parma for protection, and wore headdresses made from wolf skins so their brave deeds could be recognized."https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velites
Note that the actual source for this (Plb. 6.22.3) actually says "they wear a simple helmet; sometimes covered with wolfskin or something of that sort." Some of the nuance of the original passage clearly didn't make it into the wikipedia entry.
