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Indian Head


Indian Head


Indian Head can refer to:

Coins

  • Indian Head cent, U.S. one cent coin (1859–1909)
  • Indian Head eagle, U.S. $10 gold piece issued between 1907 and 1933
  • Indian Head gold pieces, U.S. coins issued between 1908 and 1929
  • Indian Head nickel, U.S. five cent coin (1913–1938)

Communities

Canada

  • Indian Head, Saskatchewan, a town in Canada
    • Indian Head-Milestone, the local provincial electoral district
    • Rural Municipality of Indian Head No. 156, Saskatchewan, the surrounding rural municipality

United States

Listed alphabetically by state

  • Indian Head Park, Illinois, a village in Cook County
  • Indian Head, Maryland, a town in Charles County
  • Indian Head, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community in Fayette County

Geographical features

United States

  • Indian Head Mountain (New York), one of the Catskill Mountains in Greene County, New York
  • Indian Head Peak, in the Glacier Peak Wilderness in the U.S. state of Washington
  • Indian Head Pond (Massachusetts), in Hanson, Massachusetts
  • Indian Head River, in Massachusetts
  • Indian Head Rock, a multi-ton boulder near Portsmouth, Ohio
  • Mount Pemigewasset, also known as Indian Head, in New Hampshire

Elsewhere

  • Badlands Guardian, a landscape in Alberta, Canada—when viewed from the air, it resembles a human head wearing a full Native American headdress
  • Indian Head (Fraser Island), a headland in Australia

Sports usage

"Indian Head" can also colloquially (and controversially) refer to the logos of a number of sports teams that feature(d) a stylized image of a Native American. Prominent examples include:

Teams

  • Chicago Blackhawks, an American professional ice hockey team
  • Florida State Seminoles, the sports teams of Florida State University
  • North Dakota Fighting Sioux, the sports teams of University of North Dakota, now known as the North Dakota Fighting Hawks
  • Washington Redskins, an American professional gridiron football team, now known as the Washington Commanders

Mascots

  • Chief Illiniwek, former mascot of the Illinois Fighting Illini, the sports teams of the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
  • Chief Wahoo, former logo of the Cleveland Indians professional baseball team, now known as the Cleveland Guardians

Other uses

  • Indian Head, Inc., onetime owner of Wayne Corporation, an American manufacturer of buses and other vehicles
  • Indian Head Ginger, Costus spicatus, also known as Spiked Spirlaflag Ginger
  • Indian Head Highway, Route 210 in the U.S. state of Maryland
  • Indian Head Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Charles County, Maryland
  • Indian-head test pattern, an American television test pattern

See also

  • All pages with titles containing Indian Head
  • Indianhead (disambiguation)

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