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. 24 shown for “Mesoamerican artist(s)” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 19:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Zoomorphic ornament
Mesoamerican artist(s) · 400–100 BCE
Besleria talamancana L.E. Skog & Barrie
Artist not stated in the record · 19 Nov 1984
Feline head hacha
Southern Mesoamerican artist(s) · 800–1100 CE
Besleria talamancana L.E. Skog & Barrie
Artist not stated in the record · 11 Apr 1989
Eagle relief
Toltec artist(s) · 900–1200 CE
J. A. Scholten
Unidentified Artist · c. 1875
Standing figure
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 350–600 CE
David Knox
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Whistling vessel
Maya artist(s) · 400–500 CE
Seth Louis Shaw
Unidentified Artist · c. 1870
Mirror-bearer
Maya artist(s) · 410–650 CE
Henry Rocher
Unidentified Artist · c. 1875
Face
Olmec artist(s) · 900–400 BCE
Tintype album with 80 images
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
Smiling figure (Sonriente)
South central Veracruz artist(s) · 600–1000 CE
Winold Reiss
Unidentified Artist · 1919
Ballplayer
Tlapacoya artist(s) · 1200–1000 BCE
Charles and Henry Meade
Unidentified Artist · 1852
Mask
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 300–600 CE
Milne Ramsey
Unidentified Artist
Mask
Teotihuacan artist(s) · 3rd–7th century
Herman Vogel
Unidentified Artist · c. 1872
Seated hollow figure with helmet
Las Bocas artist(s) · 1200–800 BCE
Miniature tintype album with 10 images
Unidentified Artist · c. 1865
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. 116 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. 878641 matched · 40 examined · 23 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 2026-09-03 19:39 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.