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 head, indian and/or head:
“I was happy there,
part Venetian vase,
part Swiss watch, part Indian head.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“This Indian camp was a slight, patched-up affair, which had stood there several weeks, built shed-fashion, open to the fire on the west.... Altogether it was about as savage a sight as was ever witnessed, and I was carried back at once three hundred years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
No matter, ‘t will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road:—
Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)