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On days when she is not volunteering, Jan Powell, 74, of Kansas City, can be found nestled in her cozy living room with skeins of yellow, red and white yarn.

Salted fish is traded for fur and feed grains. A block of wood is whittled into a toy horse and sold at an artisan market.