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. 17 shown for “Kora” — 37 records examined, 13 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-04 05:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Kora
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Tricalysia cacondensis Hiern
Artist not stated in the record · Mar 1978

Korikaariye
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Vaccinium wrightii A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1956

Bala
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Stephania japonica (Thunb.) Miers
Artist not stated in the record · 22 Jun 1956

Nyanyeru (riti)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century

Aconitum karakolicum Rapaics
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1909

Sora Ngoni (Simbingo)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Setaria viridis (L.) P. Beauv.
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Aug 1939

Monachosorum flagellare (Makino) Hayata
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

Machilus japonica Siebold & Zucc.
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Aug 1967

Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C.A. Mey.
Artist not stated in the record · 5 Jul 1909

Dryopteris cystolepidota (Miq.) C. Chr.
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

Dryopteris bissetiana
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1953

Asplenium oligophiebium Baker
Artist not stated in the record · 30 Aug 1954

Asplenium normale D. Don
Artist not stated in the record · 23 Aug 1953
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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 6 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.5 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 26 matched · 26 examined · 7 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 2026-09-04 05:32 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.