Leonie was born in the bush at Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff). Her mother was Malyungka Nangala and her father was Kamutu Tjungurrayai. Her mother said she was from Tjukurla in WA. Leonie is the younger sister of Long Jack Phillipus Tjakamarra’s first wife, Susette. Leonie sees herself as the “younger auntie” of Long Jack’s eldest daughter Charlotte Phillipus. Leonie attended school at Papunya. Her first husband was Dalton Abbott Ngala Bangarta, with who she had two daughters. She has seven children with her second husband Kenny Lillius (b. 1951) of whom Kayleen Lillius is the eldest. Kenny was the brother of Kwirrkurra Chairman, Jimmy Brown. Leonie says she is now on her own. She has many grandchildren, some of them married with children of their own. Leonie’s dreaming is Kanparraka or centipede. Kamutu’s dreaming was mala (wallaby) and the country at Tjunginpa. Nyumanu was her father’s and grandfather’s place.
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