Editing Half Dome (section)

==In culture==
[[File:Ansel-adams-monolith-the-face-of-half-dome - edit1.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|The 1927 [[Ansel Adams]] photograph ''[[Monolith, the Face of Half Dome]]'']]
[[File:California quarter, reverse side, 2005.jpg|thumb|upright=0.7|California "State quarter"]]
Half Dome was originally called "''Tis-sa-ack''", meaning Cleft Rock in the language of the local [[Ahwahnechee people]]. Tis-sa-ack is also the name of the fourth route on the formation, ascended by [[Royal Robbins]] and Don Peterson over eight days in October 1969. Tis-sa-ack is the name of a mother from a native legend. The face seen in Half Dome is supposed to be hers.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Lore and Lure of Yosemite|last=Wilson|first=Herbert Earl|year=1922|chapter=Legend of Tis-sa-sack|url=http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/lly/lly28.htm}}</ref><ref name="Hartesveldt1955">{{Cite journal|last=Hartesveldt|first=Richard J.|date=1955|title=Yosemite Valley Place Names|journal=Yosemite Nature Notes|url=https://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/yosemite_valley_place_names/|access-date=28 December 2024}}</ref> Tis-sa-ack is the name of a [[Mono Lake Paiute]] girl in the Yosemite Native American legend.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} John Muir interchangeably used "Tissiack,"<ref>{{cite book|quote=I have gazed on Tissiack a thousand times — in days of solemn storms, and when her form shone divine with the jewelry of winter, or was veiled in living clouds; and I have heard her voice of winds, and snowy, tuneful waters when floods were falling.|title=Steep Trails|chapter=A Geologist's Winter Walk|last=Muir|first=John|year=1918|url=http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/steep_trails/chapter_2.html|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton-Mifflin|isbn=0-87156-535-8}}</ref> "South Dome,"<ref>{{cite book|quote=With the exception of a few spires and pinnacles, the South Dome is the only rock about the Valley that is strictly inaccessible without artificial means, and its inaccessibility is expressed in severe terms.|title=The Yosemite|chapter=South Dome|last=Muir|first=John|year=1912|url=http://www.yosemite.ca.us/john_muir_writings/the_yosemite/chapter_10.html|location=New York|publisher=The Century Company}}</ref> and "Half Dome" in his writings.

Others say [[Ahwahneechee]] Native Americans named Half Dome "Face of a Young Woman Stained with Tears" ("Tis-se'-yak") because of the [[Lichens of the Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|colonies of brown-black]] [[lichen]]s that form dark vertical drip-like stripes along drainage tracks in the rock faces.<ref>My Yosemite: A Guide for Young Adventurers, Mike Graf</ref><ref>[http://backcountrypictures.com/bcp_writing_yosemite.pdf Spirit Of Yosemite, BackCountryPictures.com]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name="LSN">Lichens in relation to management issues in the Sierra Nevada national parks, McCune, B., J. Grenon, and E. Martin, L. Mutch, Sierra Nevada Network, Cooperative agreement CA9088A0008. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, California, [http://openjournals.wsu.edu/index.php/pnwfungi/article/view/1031] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082622/http://openjournals.wsu.edu/index.php/pnwfungi/article/view/1031|date=2014-08-19}}</ref>

[[Jack London]]'s 1900 short story "Dutch Courage" tells of a fictional climb of Half Dome.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Project Gutenberg eBook, Dutch Courage and Other Stories, by Jack London |url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14449/14449-h/14449-h.htm |website=Project Gutenberg |access-date=August 31, 2021}}</ref>

''[[Monolith, the Face of Half Dome]]'' is a black and white photograph taken by [[Ansel Adams]] in 1927 that depicts the western face of Half Dome as seen from the "Diving Board".<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|title=Ansel Adams|last=Alinder|first=Mary|publisher=Henry Holt and Company, Inc.|year=1996|location=Canada|pages=57–60}}</ref> It was used by the [[Sierra Club]] as a visual aid for the [[environmental movement]], and was a part of the portfolio ''[[Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras]]''. The ashes of [[Ansel Adams]] were later scattered on Half Dome after he died.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Site of 14,000 Famous Persons |date=2016 |edition=3rd |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-078647992-4 <!-- |access-date=October 9, 2022 -->}}</ref>

Half Dome was used as the logo for a software company, [[Sierra On-Line]].

In 1971, [[outdoor recreation]] and climbing equipment company [[The North Face]] created their company [[logo]], based upon a stylized depiction of the Half Dome formation. It is still their logo 50 years later.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A History of The North Face|url=https://www.thrifted.com/blogs/the-edit/a-history-of-the-north-face|access-date=2021-12-13|website=Thrifted.com|language=en}}</ref>

In 1988, Half Dome was featured on a 25 cent United States postage stamp. An image of Half Dome, along with [[John Muir]] and the [[California condor]], appears on the California [[State Quarter]], released in January 2005.

From 2010 until the introduction of [[Real ID Act|REAL ID]], California [[driver's license]]s featured an illustration of Half Dome.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-10-06 |title=New look for California driver's licenses and ID cards |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/10/06/new-look-for-california-drivers-licenses-and-id-cards/ |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=The Mercury News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>[http://www.ca-cpi.org/docs/Is-It-Valid-2010.pdf] Driver License & Identification Card Verification Guide</ref>

{{panorama|image=File:Half dome summit panorama 360.JPG|caption=A 360° panorama from the summit of Half Dome, taken in July 2005|height=150}}