The infamous 'Qanon Shaman' is sporting a somewhat diminished appearance now he's in jail - with a new headshot of the Capitol Hill rioter looking somewhat more humbled without his Stars and Stripes make-up, fur hat and horns.
Mugshots of federal inmates have been difficult to obtain since 2016, when the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that suspects could assert privacy interests in booking photos.
However, some such as the Shaman - real name Jacob Chansley - are housed by state or local law enforcement agencies and so images can be released due to underlying state law.
Chansley's mug shot is a sharp contrast to the images that went round the world of him as a face-painted rioter who joined hundreds of people running into the Capitol Hill building on 6 January where the country's lawmakers were certifying the Electoral Collage votes.
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He remains bearded, but is bald and pale-faced and has clearly lost a degree of weight, due to a hunger strike he has gone on due to not being fed organic food - as per his dietary request.
Chansley yesterday (4 February) was moved to his third jail since turning himself in to the FBI in light of the 6 January riots.
He is now in the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia after his lawyer argued he'd gone nine days without food in his Washington DC cell because guards wouldn't give him the organic food that his religious and dietary requirements supposedly needed.
The news came out in a court filing on Wednesday (3 February), in which his attorney Albert Watkins wrote: "The Defendant has not been able to consume any food since the commencement of his stay in Washington, DC, being a period in excess of one week.
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"It is understood the Defendant has lost weight in excess of twenty pounds during the last week."
Chansley had already raised this complaint before, while in detention in Phoenix, Arizona after his initial arrest.
In the court filing in Washington, it was claimed that Chansley is a legitimate shaman, citing the Wikipedia page for 'Shamanism' in a footnote, and so, as part of his religious beliefs, he won't consume non-organic food.
The court has been asked to order the jail to provide him 'life-sustaining sustenance for ingestion' or simply grant him release from jail ahead of his trial.
As in Arizona, a judge ruled that Chansley should be fed according to his dietary requirements, but US District Judge Royce Lamberth said the US Marshals Service had told the court that the District of Columbia Department of Corrections subsequently asked for Chansley to be moved because they couldn't honour this order.
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Chansley has been charged with knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He is one of more than 100 people to have been arrested in relation to the riots so far.
Featured Image Credit: Alexandria Sheriff's Office/PATopics: US News