STAR TREK: VOYAGER “CHAKOTAY'S AKOONAH”

A prop item featured in several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, “The Cloud” and the second season finale episode “Basics: Part I. This item is an “Akoonah”: Native Americans in the 24th century would use it instead of the psychoactive herbs used today to initiate a vision quest, i.e. when “Commander Chakotay” (Robert Beltran) used his to seek his father's or his animal spirit’s guidance; it is a rust/copper colored, roughly hexagonal shape with the lower 2/3 dominated by a soft fabric featuring a screen printed design and pressing an area near the middle-front will cause random red lights to dance across a smaller, oval-shaped screen on the upper part of the device. On the back is a panel held close with two allen -wrench screws where the batteries to the device are held and the item measures approx. 6.5 X 4.5 X 1.5 inches.