USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -What were the Kwakiutl homes like? The Kwakiutls lived in coastal villages of rectangular cedar-plank houses with bark roofs. Usually these houses were large (up to 100 feet long) and each one housed several families from the same clan (as many as 50 people.)

Detailed explanation-2: -The Kwakiutl lived in long, narrow houses called long houses or plank houses. Up to 50 people from the same clan would live in one house. Totem poles are ceremonial statues that were carved by many of the tribes in the Pacific Northwest.

Detailed explanation-3: -The best known are plankhouses, post-and-beam structures built using Western red cedar posts and planks for walls, roofs, and sometimes floors. Chinookan plankhouses were part of a Native architectural tradition that in the nineteenth century stretched from southeast Alaska to northern California.

Detailed explanation-4: -: a house built of planks. especially : one of the rather large usually rectangular and elaborately constructed buildings prevailingly used by American Indians but also by some Eskimos of the northwest coast of North America and adjacent Siberia.

Detailed explanation-5: -A plank house was a structure used by Northwest Coast Indigenous peoples to shelter extended families. The design and construction of plank houses varied widely. Generally speaking, however, plank houses were square or rectangular in shape and made out of wide planks of wood, often cedar.