provenience

The provenience or “find spot” of objects from politically torn nations should act as a red flag.

I mean, I’ve heard of provenance — the unbroken chain of ownership of, say, an old master painting or Tang dynasty vase — but provenience?

However, there is still no definitive word on the masks’ provenience and they say their detective work will continue.

Maeterlinck's speculations, despite their medieval provenience, have a practical orientation.

Even then there was a multiplicity of state legislatures and only one Congress, so that the legislative grist that found its way to the Court's mill was overwhelmingly of local provenience.