The presented sketch is only to be a concise message about the condition of ethnographic mate­rials, that have undeservedly remained beyond the academic circulation for at least a dozen years. The object of the author’s interest is a part of Professor Leszek Dzięgiel’s photographic heritage not included in the inventory and stored in the Archives of the JU Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology – the part documenting the research expeditions to the Middle East organised in the years 1977–1980 by the University of Agriculture in Krakow. The author’s intention is to pose a question about the potential value of the resource on the basis of the preliminary examination of its content. Professor Dzięgiel’s publications and publicly available selection of his private correspondence constitute the source basis that supports its description. This synthetic and reorganising survey should be treated particularly as an invitation to a professional verification, completion and integration of information on the fragments of dispersed heritage of the recognised researcher of the Kurdish culture.