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Set in early 19th-century Paris, it tells the story of a young man who finds a magic piece of shagreen that fulfills his every desire. For each wish granted, however, the skin shrinks and consumes a portion of his physical energy. La Peau de chagrin belongs to the Etudes philosophiques group of Balzac's sequence of novels.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 283
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"A detailed study from the northern to southern plains of iconic autobiographical Plains Indian war paintings, generally found on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners"--
"In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art -- narrating war exploits in large-scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical,...
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