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The bottom of the Maze in Canyonlands National Park consists of
seldom-visted interlocking canyons. The difficulty of travel comes
more from the remoteness, the multitude of side canyons which
all look alike, than from the terrain, as the
canyons are wide and have sandy bottoms. Pictograph Fork is nearly
200 years wide, and is dotted with cottonwood trees that turn yellow
in mid-October.
The panel of life-size pictographs, in the Barrier Canyon style identical to
the Great Gallery in Horseshoe Canyon, was painted by the Archaic
People who lived in Utah from 8,000 to 2,000 years ago,
predating the Anasazi. It is named the Harvest Scene because one
of the figures appears to be holding a sheaf of rice grass.
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