The provenance of the former included locations within the proposed area where soybean was domesticated.
The details of an old painting's provenance -- the history of its ownership -- can often look like a verbal maze, a shorthand catalogue of terse allusions to auctions, exhibitions, reproductions and the lives of former owners.
This former soldier of fortune had a provenance as dubious as some of the collections he presided over.
Perhaps presaging the provenance of his future election pocketbook, former Senator Bob Kerrey, who is seeking to regain his Senate seat in Nebraska, raked in $30,000 over the last few days, all of it from people or groups outside Nebraska.
Ms. Getz and Mr. Schapiro fear that despite its provenance as one of three houses on a former Guggenheim family estate and later part of former Gov. W. Averell Harriman's estate, the longer it sits on the market, the more likely buyers are to consider it a knockdown.
The ship owes its fame to its age and capacity, facilities and amusements, the cachet of its provenance and passengers, who have included Nelson Mandela, former President Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Taylor, Dr. Ruth -- and Queen Elizabeth II.
While historical provenance does not guarantee heightened returns at auction, former papal automobiles have brought large results in recent years.
The former institution holds 281 prints, 7 of which are of disputed provenance, which were donated to the Royal Dutch Geographical Society by Pieter Johannes Veth in 1891, whereas the latter one holds a copy of the De Bussy publication.
Plant material transfer and sowing seeds of local provenance are used most frequently to recover grassland vegetation in former croplands.
Lithology, grain size, and mineralogy of the tephras, interpreted for the first time, elucidate the varying volcanic provenance, especially of the Pleistocene beds, and the environmental conditions which former inhabitants experienced.
