Haleets

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Coordinates: 47°43′07.1″N 122°32′40.1″W / 47.718639°N 122.544472°W / 47.718639; -122.544472
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Haleets
barnacles.
Coordinates47°43′07.1″N 122°32′40.1″W / 47.718639°N 122.544472°W / 47.718639; -122.544472
Composition
Sandstone
Closeup showing 19th century survey marks on Haleets Rock. The letters "C S" (Coast Survey) can be seen nearly inverted.

Haleets (also called Figurehead Rock) is a sandstone

Agate Passage, as part of their heritage.[2] 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

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.
Haleets Rock, looking northwest from the beach. Petroglyphs are on the side facing 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,

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. 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. Wing Point, fell about three feet during an earthquake."[5]

References

  1. ^ Casey 2012, p. 126.
  2. ^ a b c Lewarch 2012, p. 3.
  3. ^ a b Bainbridge Island Historical Museum 2012.
  4. ^ Leen 2015.
  5. ^ a b Alcalá 2013.
  6. ^ a b c 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,
    ISBN 9781594856853
  • Survey marker SY5096 NGS data sheet, United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), April 24, 2015

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