OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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. 18 shown for “Double-End Animal Pendant” — 64 records examined, 38 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Double-End Animal Pendant

Double-End Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Medal of the Order of St. Stanislas, by Eduard

Medal of the Order of St. Stanislas

Eduard · 1850–1900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant, by Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s)

Pendant

Mixtec (Ñuu Savi) artist(s) · 1300–1521 CE

Public domainThe Met
Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Lanyard worn by Baba Chuck

Artist not stated in the record · late 20th-early 21st century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Figure pendant, by Tairona artist(s)

Figure pendant

Tairona artist(s) · 900–1600 CE

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · Mid-17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Animal pendant

Animal pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Leather bag with tools, whistles, and shells, by Unidentified

Leather bag with tools, whistles, and shells

Unidentified · 20th Century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 100–500 CE

Public domainThe Met
Icon, by Ethiopian Orthodox

Icon

Ethiopian Orthodox · 17th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 1st–5th century

Public domainThe Met
Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Curly-Tailed Animal Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–10th century

Public domainThe Met
Bird Pendant

Bird Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–16th century

Public domainThe Met
Double Insect Pendant

Double Insect Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 300 BCE–700 CE

Public domainThe Met
Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià, by Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists

Pendant mask of Ìyọ́bà Idià

Ìgbèsànmwà (ivory- and wood- carving guild) artists · 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Pendant

Pendant

Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Public domainThe Met
What was queried

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. 417 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 51 matched · 40 examined · 34 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.6 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 22:58 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.