Professor Lee starts off with how historians attempt to go back in time and try and think as people in the past would have. He tells the audience that we must take ourselves out of our modern day shoes and get rid of our cultural lens in order to understand objects from the past. He mentions that objects of death are important and they particularly resonate in societies across the board. The first object that Professor Lee mentions is a dream catcher which was believed by the Indians to catch the spirit of a person that they had recently scalped. Professor Lee went into detail about the scalping process and how Indians would dry the scalp in order to stretch it along the circumference of the dream catcher. In the modern day we have
