== Photo, Round 3 == 

 There are multiple problems with identifying either the 1934 sketch in this article or the recent Sotheby's-sold picture as "authenticated." Editor 68.28.41.225 offers in the section above about the tintype that "the image is believed to be Crazy Horse for the following reasons". Game over right there - "believed to be" is the best that can be said about this image at this point. That is not the equivalent of "authentic" or "authenticated." The use of the passive voice "is believed to be" - is also a dead giveaway - by whom? 

 In fact, it is all but impossible at this point ever to "authenticate" a picture of someone for whom no absolutely, rock-solid contemporary image exists. The reasons editor 68 cites are worth mention in the article, as is the existence of this "new" picture itself. But there has been no peer review of the image, the reasoning, the circumstances and provenance of the picture - no academic examination and journal review of the process. What you have so far is a for-profit auction house with a financial motive asserting its validity, and a silly and academically worthless TV show doing its normal circumstantial and inferential hack job on the question. If you tried to cite either of these in a college research paper, you'd fail. 

 It's nice that many of the Oglalas today think that it might be real - but they would have no more way of knowing than anyone else. That would be like supposing that someone knew what Jesus looked like because he/she was Jewish - commonality of background with a person for whom no known picture exists also does not constitute evidence. 

 As discussed above as well, the 1934 ink drawing cannot be called "authentic." It is a fanciful re-creation that may look like CH - or may not. Again, its creation almost 70 years after CH's death renders its accuracy suspect. 

 The whole question needs to be treated with more care and respect than shown here so far. The most reliable sources available as of now - cited earlier in this section - suggest that Crazy Horse was never photographed. There needs to be evidence far more solid that that presented so far to overturn that supposition.