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 “Las Bocas artist(s)” — 64 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 06:59 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Seated hollow figure with helmet
Las Bocas artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE

Securidaca scandens Jacq.
Artist not stated in the record · 16 Oct 1977

Stylized Figure Pendant
Darién artist(s) · 1 - 900 CE

Pterocarpus acapulcensis Rose
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jan 1978

Stylized Figure Pendant
Darién artist(s) · 1 - 900 CE

Bocconia arborea S. Watson
Artist not stated in the record · 21 Oct 2007

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

Canna indica L.
Artist not stated in the record · 31 Jan 1989

Funerary mask
Lambayeque (Sicán) artist(s) · 900–1100 CE

Canna indica L.
Artist not stated in the record

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE
Pera distichophylla (Mart.) Baill.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Ear ornament with winged runner
Moche artist(s) · 400–700 CE
Mabea sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE
Micrandra sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Bottle in the shape of a feline
Wari artist(s) · 600–900 CE

unpublished name
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE

Emmotum sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE

Tovomita sp.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994

Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE

Malouetia calva Markgr.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Nov 1994
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. 1734 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. 1175912 matched · 40 examined · 3 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 06:59 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.