Vernacular architecture:
1. Boat-shaped roofs of the Tongkonan—the traditional ancestral house of the Torajan people in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Photograph by Geri Dagys instagram.com/p/CI-lqr_DG6G/
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According to a Torajan legend, the Toraja people arrived "from the north by boats, but caught in a fierce storm, their boats were so badly damaged that they used them as roofs for their new houses"
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Interesting. Without the legend, I would have called it saddle-shaped.
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Yes, saddle is probably the shape they evoke to Indo-European eyes, but to name it 'saddle-shaped' would superimpose the continental practice of saddling and horse riding on the Indonesian archipelagic culture of the Torajans