Duwamish Head is the northernmost point in West Seattle, Washington, jutting into Elliott Bay. West Seattle, a hilly district in Seattle, Washington, encompasses all of Seattle west of the Duwamish River. Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Elliott Bay is the body of water on which Seattle Washington is located The Duwamish called it "Low Point" or "Base of the Point" (Lushootseed: sgWudaqs). The Duwamish tribe (dxʷdɐwʔabʃ in Lushootseed is a Native American tribe in western Washington, and the indigenous people of metropolitan Seattle. Lushootseed (also xʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid, Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish, Skagit-Nisqually) is the language or Dialect A large boulder covered with petroglyphs once lay on the beach. Petroglyphs are Images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising pecking carving and abrading [1]
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- ^ Thrush, Coll (2007). Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place. University of Washington Press, p. 233. ISBN 0-295-98700-6.