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 “Greater Chiriquí artist” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:37 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Figure pendant
Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Francis James Mortimer, 1874 - 1944 · 1906

Figure pendant
Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

Joseph Thayendaneken: The Mohawk Chief
Unidentified Artist · 1776

Figure pendant
Greater Chiriquí artist · 700–1550 CE

John Singer Sargent
Hentschel Colourtype Lithography Company, active c. 1907 - 1911 · 1909

Frog pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE
![Sketches from the Civil War in North America [title page], by Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DNPG-NPG_79_95.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Sketches from the Civil War in North America [title page]
Adalbert John Volck, 14 Apr 1828 - 26 Mar 1912 · 1863

Double animal-head bell
Chiriquí artist(s) · 1000 - 1600 CE

Charles Shannon
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · February 5, 1907

Frog Pendant
Artist not stated in the record · 550–850 CE

Benjamin West
James Fittler, 1758 - 1835 · 1817

Deer-head pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE

Joc-O-Sot
Day & Haghe Lithography Company · c. 1845

Eagle pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE

J. A. M. Whistler
Walter Greaves, 4 Jul 1846 - 23 Nov 1930 · 1870

Pendant with sea mammal
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700–1550 CE

J. A. M. Whistler
Vincent, Brooks, Day & Son Lithography Company, active 1867 - c. 1905 · 1878

Crocodile-head figure pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 700-1550 CE

Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · January 14, 1908

Eagle pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 800–1519 CE

John Singer Sargent
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · January 12, 1907

Eagle pendant
Chiriquí artist(s) · 800–1519 CE

Frank Brangwyn
Alvin Langdon Coburn, 11 Jun 1882 - 23 Nov 1966 · September 8, 1904
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. 930 matched · 24 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. 94425 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-08-27 08:37 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.