OpenTwo 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. 16 shown for “Ha'apai Islands artist” — 64 records examined, 15 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 23:18 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
'Otua fefine (deity figure)
Ha'apai Islands artist · Early 19th century
Pteropus tonganus tonganus
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
Grere'o (shield)
Solomon Islands artist · Early to mid-19th century
Krar (mask)
Mabuiag Island artist · mid to late 19th century
Nose Ornament with Shrimp
Artist not stated in the record · 500-800 CE
Tahitian Women Bathing
Paul Gauguin · 1892
Foulehaio carunculata carunculata
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
The Siesta
Paul Gauguin · ca. 1892–94
Hirundo tahitica subfusca
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary)
Paul Gauguin · 1891
Still Life with Teapot and Fruit
Paul Gauguin · 1896
Halcyon chloris sacra
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
Toki (ceremonial adze)
Cook Islands artist · early 19th century
Comb
Kaniet Islands artist · 19th century
Lalage maculosa tabuensis
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
Ptilinopus porphyraceus porphyraceus
Artist not stated in the record · 2 Dec 1899
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. 4686 matched · 24 examined · 14 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 583136 matched · 40 examined · 1 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 2026-08-26 23:18 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.