OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

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 “Tunic Bands with Warriors” — 64 records examined, 23 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-03 13:19 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Tunic Bands with Warriors

Tunic Bands with Warriors

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment with clavus bands

Tunic fragment with clavus bands

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–6th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Inca artist(s)

Tunic

Inca artist(s) · 1400–1535 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic

Fragment of tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic, by Wari artist

Tunic

Wari artist · 650–1000 CE

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of tunic band

Fragment of tunic band

Artist not stated in the record · 5th–7th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tapestry Tunic

Tapestry Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?, by Unidentified

Blue tunic with floral embroidery and matching belt?

Unidentified · mid-to late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Richly Decorated Tunic

Richly Decorated Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)

Public domainThe Met
Fragment of a child's tunic

Fragment of a child's tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 10th–12th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Tunic with Confronting Catfish

Artist not stated in the record · 800–850 CE

Public domainThe Met
Tunic fragment

Tunic fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 8th - 10th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · probably 5th century

Public domainThe Met
Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski, by Lepenski, died 1985

Black and white tunic and skirt by Lepenski

Lepenski, died 1985 · 1981-1985

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Votive checkerboard tunic, by Inca artist(s)

Votive checkerboard tunic

Inca artist(s) · 1460–1626

Public domainThe Met
Textile

Textile

Artist not stated in the record · 6th–8th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–7th century

Public domainThe Met
Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Charger with Alexander the Great Defeating Darius Surrounded by the Four Continents

Artist not stated in the record · 1689

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 7th–9th century

Public domainThe Met
Panel with Battle Scene, by William Pitts

Panel with Battle Scene

William Pitts · 1880

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic

Tunic

Artist not stated in the record · 15th–early 16th century

Public domainThe Met
Long sleeve tunic, shirt, and pants with leaf print, by Sotiba Simpafric, Senegalese, founded 1951

Long sleeve tunic, shirt, and pants with leaf print

Sotiba Simpafric, Senegalese, founded 1951 · late 20th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tunic with Interlace Decoration

Tunic with Interlace Decoration

Artist not stated in the record · 4th–8th century

Public domainThe Met
Clavus band

Clavus band

Artist not stated in the record · 600–900

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

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. 290 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. 255215 matched · 40 examined · 22 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 2026-09-03 13:19 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.