He bought the pipe in a pipe shop in Copenhagen around 1975. A Greenlandic Inuit repaired the pipe with blue plastic tape. An important part of the Greenland collections in the Netherlands -in the National Museum of Ethnology and Museon - is collected by Gerti Nooter: utensils, hunting equipment, means of transport, clothing and art. Nooter had especially eye for objects which in addition to traditional materials such as stone, bone and wood also new materials such as plastic and glass fiber were used. Gerti and Noortje Nooter and their three young sons lived from July 1967 more than a year in Diilerilaaq, a small village with a strong Inuit community on the East coast of Greenland. They learned the Greenlandic language 'playful'. Like the Greenlanders they lived of seal meat and fish, rusk, oatmeal, coffee and home-baked bread. Other food was not there. Gerti went hunting with the men. Noortje was the center in the house and hospitable received the many Greenland visit. The children went to the school in Diilerilaaq.