The Nahwitti (Kwakiutl) Village of Xwamdasbe on Hope Island, off the northeast coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, showing houses with painted family crests. Photographed by Edward Dossetter, 1881.
I haven’t seen many like it. West coast natives seem less documented than they might be. I wonder how much is original culture in the pic? Did they use western tech, like lumber mills, to build the structures? Axes do doubt were used for some things.
That’s a typical long house of the regional indigenous culture. Hand split cedar planks and roofed with hand split cedar shakes. Much easier to construct with iron/steel tools than stone tools but you can split cedar with hardwood wedges.