Art, Symbol & Imagination
Roina: An Imagined Martian Flowering Stem
Small open flowers spread along a tall branching stem above a radial base of leaves. Narrow buds and oval side leaves repeat between the blossoms. The caption names Roina within the mediumistic narrative’s imagined botanical world.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "Roina: An Imagined Martian Flowering Stem" [editorial title]. In Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento, Sara Weiss. New York: The Bradford Press; undated title, copyright 1908., undated edition, The Bradford Press. Source scan leaf 305. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0299
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims. The depicted planetary landscapes or plants belong to the source’s imagined or mediumistic accounts.
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Illustrator not identified. Roina: An Imagined Martian Flowering Stem. Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento. Scan leaf 305. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0299