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. 14 shown for “Tapis, ceremonial skirt with squid pattern (cumi-cumi) iconography” — 42 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-07 00:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Tapis, ceremonial skirt with squid pattern (cumi-cumi) iconography
Artist not stated in the record · Probably 19th century
Tapis (skirt)
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis)
Lampung artist · 18th century or earlier
Scaevola sericea Vahl
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Jul 1981
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. var. sonchifolia
Artist not stated in the record · 14 Jul 1981
Ceremonial cloak with silver iconography
Unidentified · 1930s-1950s
Acolyte robe from the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles
Unidentified · ca. 1963
Silk organza unfinished dress with blue embroidery
Unidentified · ca. 1966
Pink beaded dress with gold lamé belt
Unidentified · 1920s
Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress
Artist not stated in the record · 1860-1880
Beaded orange velvet evening top and skirt
Unidentified · 1965-1980
Fragments of skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 1850–99
Dark purple silk bodice and skirt
Unidentified · 1880s
Skirt
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century
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. 2 matched · 2 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.2 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 260436 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-07 00:58 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.