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. 9 shown for “Ritual Staff (Shakujō)” — 64 records examined, 55 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 23:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Ritual Staff (Shakujō)
Artist not stated in the record · early 19th century
Finial of a Buddhist Monk’s Staff (Shakujō)
Artist not stated in the record
Finial for a Buddhist staff (khatvanga)
Artist not stated in the record · early 15th century
Ukhurhe (rattle staff) with Ọ́bà Ákẹ́nzùa I
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 1725–50
Ritual staff
Artist not stated in the record
Asen (commemorative altar)
Fon artist · late 19th century–mid-20th century
Jizō, Bodhisattva of the Earth Store (Kshitigarbha)
Kaikei · ca. 1202
Ukhurhe (rattle staff) with hand holding mudfish
Ìgùn Ẹ́rọ̀nwwọ̀n (brass-casting guild) artists · 16th–19th century
The Bodhisattva Jizō
Intan · 1291
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. 101 matched · 24 examined · 15 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.9 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 27455 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 23:13 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.