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. 14 shown for “Mende, Vai, or Temne artist” — 47 records examined, 33 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 22:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Interior Hanging
Mende, Vai, or Temne artist · early–mid-19th century
Male figure
Nomoli Style · 15th-17th century
Head
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 12th–16th century
Male figure
Nomoli Style · 15th-17th century
Spoon with figure
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · ca. 1490–1530
Hunting horn
Temne artist · Late 15th century
Figure: Seated Male
Temne or Bullom artist(s) · 16th century (?)
Helmet mask
Mende artist · Mid-20th century
Head
Nomoli Style · 15th-17th century
Portrait of Mendes Cohen
Joseph Wood, born Clarkstown, NY 1778-died Washington, DC 1830 · 1818
Canthium merrillii (Setch.) Christoph.
Artist not stated in the record · 26 Nov 1987
Sewing sample
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Miconia mahechae Humberto Mend.
Artist not stated in the record · 4 Jan 1942 or 1 Apr 1942
Platyneuron laticostatum (Cardot) Broth.
Artist not stated in the record · 12 Feb 1969
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. 7 matched · 7 examined · 3 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.4 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 285494 matched · 40 examined · 30 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.10 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 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.