The Gonakadet (modern orthography Gunakadeit) is the great benevolent sea monster of Tlingit tradition, whose sight brings wealth, good fortune, and success to the beholder. In the story recorded by John Swanton from Katishan, chief of the Kaasx'agweidi at Wrangell, in 1904, a young man mocked by his mother-in-law during a famine trapped the monster of the lake, put on its skin, and by night hunted salmon, seals, and finally whales beneath the water, secretly provisioning the starving village; in the end he did not return from beneath the sea and lived on as the Gonakadet, while his wife and daughters became beneficent creek-women who likewise bring good fortune. Emmons documented the being as a guardian of wealth widely represented on house posts, crest hats, and carved chests, and the figure is closely paralleled by the Haida Wasgo or Sea Wolf. Descriptions portray a composite creature combining traits of wolf and killer whale, with sharp teeth, claws, and fins.