---
title: "Provenance Explain"
method: POST
path: "/archive/provenance"
---

# Provenance Explain

`POST /archive/provenance`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com/archive/provenance`
- Auth: none declared

Explain the provenance of a named archive colour with explicit separation of:
documented historical fact, computational hex derivation, and cultural interpretation.
This is the trust endpoint — it answers 'how do you know this?'

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, nullable
- `origin` string, nullable

## Request body

- ProvenanceRequest
  - `colour_name` string, required

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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