Indian Head

Indian Head can refer to:

  • Indian Head, Saskatchewan, town in Canada
  • Indian Head, Maryland, town in the United States
  • Indian Head (Fraser Island), headland in Australia
  • Indian Head cent, U.S. one cent coin (1859-1909)
  • Indian Head nickel, U.S. five cent coin (1913-1938)
  • Indian Head test card, television test pattern in the U.S.
  • Indian Head rock formation in Lincoln, New Hampshire, which resembles the head of an American Indian and is near the site of the Old Man of the Mountain
  • "Badlands Guardian" in Alberta, Canada, a landscape which, when viewed from the air, resembles a human head wearing a full native American headdress

The term "Indian Head" can also colloquially refer to the logos of any number of professional and collegiate sports teams that feature a stylized image of a Native American. Prominent examples include:

  • Washington Redskins
  • The Cleveland Indians' Chief Wahoo
  • Chicago Blackhawks
  • Florida State Seminoles
  • North Dakota Fighting Sioux
  • The Illinois Fighting Illini's former use of Chief Illiniwek

The use of such logos, however, is not without controversy.

Famous quotes containing the words indian and/or head:

    Neither doctor, lawyer or Indian chief could love you any more than I do.
    Paul Francis Webster (1907–1984)

    I mind how once we lay such a transparent summer morning,
    How you settled your head athwart my hips and gently turn’d over
    upon me,
    And parted the shirt from my bosom-bone, and plunged your tongue to my bare-stript heart,
    And reach’d till you felt my beard, and reach’d till you held my
    feet.
    Walt Whitman (1819–1892)