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Medicine bundle

Chakotay's sacred personal bundle

The wrapped collection of personal sacred objects that Chakotay carries aboard Voyager, including a blackbird's wing, a river stone and the akoonah he uses to begin a vision quest.

A medicine bundle is a private collection of objects of spiritual meaning kept by members of Chakotay's people. Chakotay brought his from the Maquis ship and keeps it in his quarters, wrapped in an animal skin.
He unwraps it for Kathryn Janeway in The Cloud (2371), explaining that he has never shown it to anyone before. It holds a blackbird's wing, a stone from a river bed carved with a sign, and the akoonah, a small device that takes the place of the psychoactive herbs his ancestors used. With it he helps Janeway look for her animal guide.
The bundle returns in Initiations, where he is using it to honour his late father when the young Kazon Kar attacks his shuttle, and in The Fight, where a vision quest lets him speak to aliens living in chaotic space.