The ring had been stored at the post office in Sitka for decades.

Jenny Lyn Smith received some unexpected mail a few weeks ago: a silver bracelet she made more than 30 years ago had arrived back in Haines.

But how – and what happened to it over the past three decades – remains somewhat of a mystery.

The bracelet was lost on its way to a Sitka jeweler in 1990. Smith, an artist who…