Makeup Design for PBS "We Shall Remain: Tecumseh"

American Experience: We Shall Remain. Episode 2 "Tecumseh"

Alyssa Ravenwood - Makeup Department Head and Special Makeup Effects Designer

Produced by PBS - WGBH. Directed by Ric Burns and Chris Eyre
Makeup Team: (November) Christopher Payne, Karen Stein (July) Christopher Payne, Laura Hill, (June) Sarah Bussard

^ The Warriors at Vincennes. Shawnee, Winnebago, Ioway, Fox Tribes

"From the award-winning PBS series AMERICAN EXPERIENCE comes We Shall Remain, the most ambitious primetime television series and media project on Native history ever produced."

- We Shall Remain website

Tenskwatawa the prophet. Tenskwatawa's eye was scarred by an arrow when he was a child. His earlobes were stretched as was customary with the Shawnee tribe. In the film he ages to 57 years old (photo right.) The prosthetic eyelid and earlobe appliances were made with silicone. The moustache is hand laid hair. Old age makeup created with stretch and stipple technique. Makeup and prosthetics by Alyssa Ravenwood.

Silicone prosthetic appliances. Hand laid moustache.	Before Makeup	Old age makeup. Stretch and stipple technique.


		The Stomp Dance Tecumseh traveled far to recruit people from different tribes to join his resistance army. In this scene he has traveled to the southeast and joins in a stomp dance celebration.

"So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people…Show respect to all people and grovel to none."

- Chief Tecumseh, Shawnee Nation


^ Shawnee Warriors at the Battle of Falling Timbers. Stretched earlobe silicone prosthetic (middle) designed by Alyssa Ravenwood, applied by Laura Hill.

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