OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Neck Band from a Tunic” — 64 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-09 04:24 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Tunic, by Inca artist(s)

Tunic

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment

Tunic fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 8th - 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Blouse, by Lydia Bush-Brown, American, 1887–1984

Blouse

Lydia Bush-Brown, American, 1887–1984 · 1905–19

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Neck Band from a Tunic

Neck Band from a Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a child's tunic

Fragment of a child's tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richly Decorated Tunic

Richly Decorated Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Public domainThe Met
Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski, by Lepenski, died 1985

Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski

Lepenski, died 1985 · 1981-1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Tunic

Tapestry Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment with clavus bands

Tunic fragment with clavus bands

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic

Fragment of tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Birdcage with fishbowl

Birdcage with fishbowl

Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Chuquibamba artist

Tunic

Chuquibamba artist · 1460–1540

Public domainThe Met
Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?, by Unidentified

Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?

Unidentified · mid-to late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive checkerboard tunic, by Inca artist(s)

Votive checkerboard tunic

Inca artist(s) · 1460–1626

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic band

Fragment of tunic band

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Banjo, by Hercules McCord

Banjo

Hercules McCord · ca. 1884

Public domainThe Met
Jug, by George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913

Jug

George Tinworth, English, 1843 - 1913 · 1869–72

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Two Amphorae from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Child's tunic

Child's tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 9th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 746 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1955439 matched · 40 examined · 24 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 2026-09-09 04:24 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.