Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Chincha artist(s)” — 53 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 10:03 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Burial post
Chincha artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Coursetia grandiflora Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/2/47

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Dunalia sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 29 Oct 1994

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE

Eupithecia chincha
Artist not stated in the record

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE
Eragrostis pastoensis (Kunth) Trin.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/3/47

Ceremonial digging stick
Chincha artist(s) · 1200–1535 CE
Sporobolus indicus (L.) R. Br.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Mar 1947

Gourd-shaped bottle
Topará artist(s) · 200 BCE–100 CE
Chondracanthus chamissoi (C. Agardh) Kützing
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Jun 1907

Funerary staff
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE
Macrocystis pyrifera (L.) C. Agardh
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Jun 1907

Funerary staff
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Tribulus terrestris L.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 8/2/47

Beaker with face
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Pteridium aquilinum var. arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Herter
Artist not stated in the record

Beaker with face
Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Pteridium aquilinum var. arachnoideum (Kaulf.) Herter
Artist not stated in the record
![[Mining Site Chincha Islands], by José Negretti](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-15801-151.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Mining Site Chincha Islands]
José Negretti · 1860s–70s

Zapoteca caracasana subsp. weberbaueri (Harms) H.M. Hern.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/2/47
![[Mining Site Chincha Islands, Lima], by José Negretti](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-15801-149.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Mining Site Chincha Islands, Lima]
José Negretti · 1860s–70s

Calliandra taxifolia (Kunth) Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 9/2/47
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 13 matched · 13 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 878605 matched · 40 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 10:03 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.