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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 “The Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahisasura Mardini)” — 64 records examined, 16 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 08:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahisasura Mardini)
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Durga Mahishasuramardini ("Slayer of the Buffalo Demon")
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
The Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Durga fighting the rakshashas Shunga and Nishunga, from a Devi Mahatmya
Artist not stated in the record · mid 19th century
Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · second half of the 9th century
Thakur Ajit Singh worships the Goddess
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1817
The Goddess Durga Slaying Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · 14th century
Design for Stage Curtain: Hercules Receives Gifts from Nymphys after his Victory over the River God Achelous
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1820
Durga as Slayer of the Buffalo Demon Mahishasura
Artist not stated in the record · 14th–15th century
Kotz-a-tó-ah, Smoked Shield, a Distinguished Warrior
George Catlin, born Wilkes-Barre, PA 1796-died Jersey City, NJ 1872 · 1834
Goddess Durga slaying the demon Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 12th century
Sketch, Hercules Slaying the Lion (?)
Fortunato Duranti, Italian, 1787 - 1863 · 1820–1850
The Goddess Durga Slaying the Demon Buffalo Mahisha
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Bromus scoparius L.
Artist not stated in the record · 14 May 1966
The Goddess Durga Victorious over the Buffalo Demon, Mahisha (Mahishasuramardini)
Artist not stated in the record · 9th century
Hercules Slaying the Hydra
Artist not stated in the record · 1750–1800
Sword Handle with Scenes of the Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon Mahishasura
Artist not stated in the record · 13th–14th century
Hercules Slaying the Hydra of Lerna
Artist not stated in the record · 1651
Standing Female Deity, probably Durga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. last quarter of the 7th century–early 8th century
Hercules Slaying the Hydra
Artist not stated in the record · 1542–48
Sri Sri Durga
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1875–80
Grinning demon
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
The Goddess Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasura Mardini)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 11th century
Oni Demon
Artist not stated in the record · late 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. 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. 1188160 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-08-27 08:39 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.