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:
“The Indian remarked as before, “Must have hard wood to cook moose-meat,” as if that were a maxim, and proceeded to get it. My companion cooked some in California fashion, winding a long string of the meat round a stick and slowly turning it in his hand before the fire. It was very good. But the Indian, not approving of the mode, or because he was not allowed to cook it his own way, would not taste it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“But whenever the roof came white
The head in the dark below
Was a shade less the color of night,
A shade more the color of snow.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)