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Haleets

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A rock on a cobbled beach, with many barnacles on the lower half, and some figures visible on the upper half.

Haleets (also called Figurehead Rock) is a sandstone glacial erratic boulder[1][2] 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.[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]

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