Konankada is the Haida sovereign of the undersea world, the great being who dwells in a house at the bottom of the sea as master of the seals and of the ocean's wealth. Depicted with an outsized head and hands and framed by copper and abalone, he is one of the most frequently rendered figures on Haida chests, food vessels, and house-fronts, where his 'front' image marks the threshold between the human and the submarine realms. Those who reached his house were believed to return endowed with fortune and power. He is the Haida counterpart of the pan-coastal sea-chief known to the Tlingit as Gonakadet.