All villages contain some skilled masons and almost all new construction is built by them. During my stay only one unskilled man built anything for himself. It was a small guest room and its rather amateur appearance provoked mild scorn. Clearly one needed a professionally built house for prestige. Houses need doors and windows, and in special cases wooden floors, and these needs are met by village carpenters.
Smiths make tools, nails, hinges and so forth, put metal tyres on cartwheels and shoe horses.
The masons in the two villages always worked on specific contracts. No one lived entirely by the craft of mason. This skill lent itself to export, and masons were potential migrants, though one or two who built village houses had never been away to work in town. Sakaltutan contained a family of carpenters. He himself no longer migrated but his sons did.