A silver bracelet created by the late Tlingit carver George Lewis perhaps more than 23 years ago was recently returned to Lewis’ family, but the original owner of the bracelet remains a mystery.

Resident Jim Shook was fishing for Dolly Varden near the Chilkoot River bridge last summer when a flash in the water caught his eye. “I looked down between my feet and saw a glint of silver” embedded in the sand. He fished…