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Submitted by AKFisher on Saturday, 19 August 2023  Page Views: 144

Rock ArtSite Name: Haleets Alternative Name: Figurehead Rock, Haleets Rock
Country: United States Region: The West Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Bainbridge Island, WA
Latitude: 47.719200N  Longitude: 122.54464W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Haleets submitted by AKFisher : Haleets petroglyph rock on at Agate Point on Bainbridge Island, Washington. Photo credit: Wiki: (Bratland) (Vote or comment on this photo)
Haleets is a sandstone glacial erratic boulder with inscribed petroglyphs on Bainbridge Island, Washington. The Native American Suquamish Tribe claims the rock, on a public beach at Agate Point on the shore of Agate Passage, as part of their heritage

The exact date the petroglyphs were carved is unknown but is estimated to be around 1000 BCE to 400 or 500 CE, the latest date being when labrets (worn by one of the petroglyph figures) were no longer used by Coast Salish peoples.[3][4]

Haleets is the Coast Salish name of the rock, also transcribed as Halelos, Xalelos and Xalilc, meaning "marked face".[5] It is known in English as Figurehead Rock. Its purpose is unknown but the Suquamish Museum curator and archivist Charlie Sigo has stated that it may have been a boundary marker.[6] An amateur astronomer has proposed a theory that it has a calendrical function (see Archaeoastronomy).[2][6][7][notes 1]

A boulder sits on a cobbled beach in bright sunlight with a stretch of blue water behind it. On the horizon are low forested hills. There is a snow covered volcano on the far distance. A few sailboats are in the water.

The rock is 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and 7 feet (2.1 m) long. It sits about 100 feet (30 m) offshore,[6] and has been marked with chiseled and drilled Coast Survey features since 1856, and a bronze geodetic mark was placed on it in 1934.[8] Some sources say that the rock is one of three prominent Salish Sea petroglyphs that were always on the shoreline,[9] but tectonic activity around the Seattle Fault may have put Haleets in the intertidal zone.[notes 2]

Footnotes:
1. Bainbridge Island Historical Museum 2012: "The petroglyph lies precisely west of the Skykomish canyon 60 miles away. Standing at the petroglyph on the vernal and autumnal equinox, one can view the rising sun shining straight through the canyon."[3]
2. Alcalá 2013: "Within human memory, Laxelks, now called Wing Point, fell about three feet during an earthquake."[5]

References:
1. Casey 2012, p. 126.
2. Lewarch 2012, p. 3.
3. Bainbridge Island Historical Museum 2012.
4. Leen 2015.
5. Alcalá 2013.
6. Westbrook 1999.
7. Bainbridge Island Review 2008.
8. NOAA 2015.
9. Beauchamp 2013.

Sources:
- Lewarch, Dennis (October 2012), "Preserving Haleets: a Suquamish Treasure" (PDF), Suquamish News, Suquamish Tribe, archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-12-15
- Beauchamp, Douglas (2013), "Puget Sound Petroglyph Boulders: Rock Art in the West", Rock Art Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
- Westbrook, Todd (April 4, 1999), "Did Rock Carvings Mark The Seasons?", The (Bremerton) Sun – via The Seattle Times
- Alcalá, Kathleen (February 3, 2013), "The Salish Sea II", Kathleen Alcalá Newsletter, p. 3, archived from the original on April 9, 2016, retrieved April 24, 2015
- "1000 BC to 500 AD — The Agate Point petroglyphs are carved", It's About Time: a Chronological Timeline of Events on Bainbridge Island, Bainbridge Island Historical Museum, 2012
- Leen, Daniel (2015), "Puget (Lushootseed) Salish sites", A Gallery of Northwest Petroglyphs: Shamanic Art of the Pacific Northwest
- "Mysteries of the petroglyph", Bainbridge Island Review, June 9, 2008, archived from the original on March 5, 2016
- Casey, Rob (2012), Kayaking Puget Sound and the San Juan Islands: 60 Paddle Trips Including the Gulf Islands, The Mountaineers Books, ISBN 9781594856853
- Survey marker SY5096 NGS data sheet, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), April 24, 2015. Source: Wikipedia (see link below).

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