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 head, indian and/or head:

    I was happy there,
    part Venetian vase,
    part Swiss watch, part Indian head.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    Every New Englander might easily raise all his own breadstuffs in this land of rye and Indian corn, and not depend on distant and fluctuating markets for them. Yet so far are we from simplicity and independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Thus do I want man and woman to be: the one fit to wage war and the other fit to give birth, but both fit to dance with head and feet.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)