Talk:Big Beaver Totem Pole

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The Story of Big Beaver?[edit]

@Sir-Douglas: Do you have a source for "The Story of Big Beaver"? ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:46, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This says "Story of Big Beaver" ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:51, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This says "Big Beaver Totem Pole" ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:52, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

This, this, and this say simply "Big Beaver" ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:52, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Source https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0096487 ---Another Believer _(Talk) 00:50, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Apology for the lack of a move reason, I accidentally hit enter while typing. I wanted to change the title of this article to reflect what I believe might be the full name of the sculpture as listed on its plaque to bring it in line with other articles on grant park sculptures that use the same name listed on the plaque accompanying the sculpture as their title, namely the article on Olmec Head, Number 8; I visited both sculptures recently and found the plaques the same as they were in the 2015 images you took. The only source on both articles, a page on the Grant Park Conservatory site that lists and describes works in Grant Park seems to refer to some works, including the "Big Beaver totem pole" and "Olmec Head", by shortened/informal names while referring to other works by the full/formal name or group names. After further research looking for direct online sources listing the official title of the totem pole, I found the Tribune article you linked along with some other minor sources dating back to 2008 whose writing style appears to prefer full names. The article, along with the plaque, would be my primary sources for the actual name of the work being The Story of Big Beaver or Story of Big Beaver, though I would have to talk to someone with the field museum to definitively say. Most online mentions of the sculpture, especially recent ones, call the sculpture "Big Beaver", "Big Beaver Totem Pole", or something in between. I decided to drop "Totem Pole" from the article name I submitted as I had edited the body of the article to reflect that the sculpture is a totem pole, which was previously only mentioned in the title. All in all, I'll leave it up to you to decide between "Big Beaver Totem Pole" or the title I submitted. — Sir-Douglas (talk) 03:24, 12 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]