Kaats' is the hero of the Tlingit bear-husband narrative, recorded by Swanton at Sitka in 1904 as tale 19 of Tlingit Myths and Texts. While hunting, Kaats' was drawn into the den of a brown bear and taken as husband by the bear woman, who bore him children; when he later returned among people, she forbade him any dealings with his human wife and children, and he hunted daily to feed his bear family. At last he disobeyed her injunction and was killed by his own bear children. The Dauenhauers published J. B. Fawcett's Tlingit-language telling, noting the story's standing among brown-bear crest traditions of the Teikweidí; the narrative is commemorated in totem art such as the Kaats' pole at Saxman.