Provenience n. Origin; source; place where found or produced; provenance; used esp. in the fine arts and in archaeology; as, the provenience of a patera.
... earth-mother are connected the numerous myths of the origin of the first human beings from clay, mould, etc., their provenience from caves, holes in the ground, rocks and mountains, especially those in which the woman is said to have been created first (509. 110). Here belong also not a few ethnic names, for many primitive peoples ... — The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
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