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 “Scarab Bracelet of Wah” — 64 records examined, 4 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-28 06:08 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Scarab of the Storehouse Overseer Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Hedeoma drummondii Benth.
Artist not stated in the record · 13 Jul 1969
Scarab Bracelet of Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Asclepias asperula (Decne.) Woodson subsp. asperula
Artist not stated in the record · 15 Jul 1970

Scarab
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Geranium caespitosum E. James
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

Rings and necklace
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Geranium caespitosum E. James
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

Scarab and Bead Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Stephanomeria tenuifolia (Torr.) H.M. Hall
Artist not stated in the record · 8 Aug 1969

Scarab with Scrolls and Hieroglyphs
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1640 B.C.

Ericameria nauseosa var. hololeuca (A. Gray) G.L. Nesom & G.I. Baird
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

Heart Scarab Inscribed for Djehutymose
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1427–1396 BCE

Penstemon confusus M.E. Jones
Artist not stated in the record · 31 May 1969

Scarab of Wah
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Oenothera lavandulifolia Torr. & A. Gray
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1969

Necklace of Gold Ball Beads
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Solidago velutina DC.
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 1969

Beaded Cuff Bracelet
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Machaeranthera linearis Greene
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1969

Scarab of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE

Lathyrus brachycalyx Rydb.
Artist not stated in the record · 1 Jun 1969

Nine scarabs set in modern bracelet.
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1350 BCE

Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britton & Rusby
Artist not stated in the record · 7 Aug 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. 25 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 2859718 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 2026-08-28 06:08 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.