Objects can be status symbols. A status symbol is a perceived indicator of economic or social status. In the modern era, luxury goods are often perceived as status symbols. For example a penthouse apartment, fashionable clothes and jewelry, artworks or antiques, or a luxury vehicle. The drinking vessel shows how objects as social symbols evolve over time in different cultures. Power can be fed into the creation of cultural artefacts, as shown in the Eye Figurine. It is an establishment of power through objects. The tortoise demonstrates how humans show their power over nature. Human power displayed not only on the animals but also on humans themselves, even in deciding the use of the dead. In all kinds of social activities that constrain or enable certain social actions, the power can come from social status and wealth, as displayed in the Agreement for Francis Galton. Power divides the social classes. Objects can be symbols of class; they can be the stories behind social stratification. On the other side, social stratification shapes what the object is.