Rare piece of Australia's Indigenous history captured on camera in the desert

It was 1967, and she was standing in the hot sand of the Great Sandy Desert.

"When I first saw white man, I saw him make toilet," she says.

It shows a strange scene. A group of people are standing in the desert grass. Several are in the middle of putting on clothes, oblivious to the camera quietly snapping away.

But by 1967, things were starting to change.

Unfamiliar tracks appeared on the landscape; sometimes a large glinting object rumbled in the sky.

Then came the day when the strange pale people approached.

"They came in a Toyota," she says.

"I saw him, a white person, walk over with shirts and trousers.

Her family were given clothes and led onto the open-back truck.

Bugurra met and married a desert man named Jimmy. But some of the old ways persisted. She was one of two wives, and in keeping with traditional custom the trio lived together raising their children.