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. 12 shown for “Standing Horrific Female Deity” — 24 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 15:38 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.Smithsonian Open Access: HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.
Standing Horrific Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 16th–17th century

Standing Female Deity, probably Durga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. last quarter of the 7th century–early 8th century

Female Shinto Deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. mid-11th–mid-12th century

Standing Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 3rd–2nd century BCE

Bulul (male rice deity figure)
Ifugao artist · 19th century or earlier

Female figure from an obu (house of images)
Igbo artist · Late 19th century

Terracotta female figure
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400–1300 BCE

Seated female figure
Maya artist(s) · 700–800 CE

Standing Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · 7th century

Standing Four-Armed Female Deity
Artist not stated in the record · ca. third quarter of the 10th century

Standing Female Deity (Study Collection)
Artist not stated in the record · 20th century

Phrase about the female deity Mazu
Jifei Ruyi (Sokuhi Nyoitsu) · ca. 1665–71
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. 61 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. HTTP 429 from api.si.edu. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 15:38 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.