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Pages in category "Petroglyphs in Washington (state)" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Indian Painted Rocks is a tiny state park (approximately 2,000 sq ft (200 m 2)) right outside Yakima, Washington at the intersection of Powerhouse and Ackely Roads. The Indian rock paintings, also known as pictographs are on a cliff of basaltic rocks parallel to the current Powerhouse road which was once an Indian trail and later a main pioneer ...
The Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site is the site of an archaeological excavation on the Olympic Peninsula near Neah Bay, Washington, United States. The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [ 3 ]
Arch Creek Petroglyphs; Calpet Rockshelter (48SU354) Castle Gardens; Gateway (48LN348) La Barge Bluffs Petroglyphs; Legend Rock; Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site; Tolar Petroglyph Site; White Mountain; Wold Rock Art District
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Haleets (Lushootseed: x̌alilc [1] also called Figurehead Rock) is a sandstone glacial erratic boulder [2] [3] 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. [3]
Native Americans created the petroglyphs by taking a hard-to-break-down rock, usually quartzite, and pecking away at the softer basalt rocks. Pecking is the process of using the harder stone to ...
About 60 Wanapum petroglyphs were blasted from the rock before being flooded; they may be viewed at Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park.. The Wanapum Heritage Center Museum displays artifacts of the time before the dams, [6] while the Wanapum River Patrol keeps watch over the ancestral lands, monitoring locations of special significance to the Wanapum to protect those places from depredation ...