The Melbourne Museum is one of the most incredible museums I've ever visited. They have a whole jungle with its own ecosystem built right in the middle of it.

Authentic aboriginal boomerangs from Australia. Rachel Louise Snyder/World Vision Report

After I showed my touristy fake boomerang to Caroline Martin, she felt terribly sorry that I'd been conned. She herself is aboriginal and she's very involved with Australia's aboriginal art movement and authenticity. Her mother, in fact, is the proprietor of Melbourne's only aboriginal-cuisine restaurant (I can't remember the name of it, but it's on the Yarra River).

Anyway, I happened to be interviewing Caroline on my daughter's first birthday — she and my husband were playing in an enormous sandbox in the kids' area of the museum while I looked at boomerangs. Afterwards, all four of us went up to Caroline's office, where she presented me with the most beautiful little boomerang as a birthday gift for Jazz. It's about six inches end to end and made of glass, with white ochre paint showing the artist and tribe.

Authenticity indeed. We treasure it ... and, of course, Jazz doesn't get to play with it until she's in college!

Rachel Louise Snyder is our "Global Guru" and from time to time will be contributing her search for interesting answers to simple questions, asked somewhere in the world. Listen to her piece on aboriginal boomerangs here.