"This eye-catching object is somewhere between a fish and a high-heeled shoe. Only the opening for the foot is missing. In reality, this is a leather bottle and the tail is the stopper of the bottle. Due to the shoe shape, it is thought that the bottle may have been made as a showpiece or masterpiece for a shoemaker's guild." - Rijksmuseum.
During the Indonesian revolution to free itself from being a colony of the Netherlands, freedom fighters would rip the blue cloth from the Dutch flag to create the Indonesian flag. [video]