matrilineally

The females keep the groups cohesive and they are matrilineally related.

A person's social status and class were determined matrilineally.

Females which are matrilineally related groom each other more often than unrelated individuals.

Females within a group are matrilineally related.

Land was inherited matrilineally, and the descent system was matrilineal as well.

They live in longhouses containing several compartments occupied by matrilineally linked nuclear families.

But new forms of domestic co-operation have come into being, often between brothers and sisters, or matrilineally linked relatives.

In some ancient cultures, membership in their groups was (and still is if in bold) inherited matrilineally.

Certain other aspects of the Akan culture are determined patrilineally rather than matrilineally.

Given that rank is inherited matrilineally, maternal relatives have specific classifiers, but paternal relatives do not.

Minangkabau have large corporate descent groups, but they traditionally reckon descent matrilineally.

Some societies reckon descent patrilineally for some purposes, and matrilineally for others.

Particularly in larger groups, females preferentially associate with, groom, and provide coalitionary support to their matrilineally related female kin.

Fillies are named matrilineally (Fabina out of Fiesta).

Traditionally, Nauruans traced their descent matrilineally.

Likewise, slavery was hereditary (matrilineally), with slaves making up as much as 30% of Goryeo society.

Thus, a mixed marriage is forbidden as is the union of a horse and a donkey, and in both unions the offspring are judged matrilineally.

One defining feature of Skala is that the throne is always held by a Queen, power traveling matrilineally.

Originally, China surnames were derived matrilineally, although by the time of the Shang Dynasty they had become patrilineal.

Traditionally uncentralized politically, they live in small scattered villages, each composed of a number of matrilineally related men and their wives and children.

According to the Mishnah, the first written source for halakha, the status of the offspring of mixed marriages was determined matrilineally.

Though her father is a full-blood Hopi, Rose was denied membership in her father's tribe because ancestry is determined matrilineally.

Analogous to Y-chromosomal Adam, Mitochondrial Eve is the woman from whom all living humans are descended matrilineally.

Female oracle initiate of Afa/Vodoun (matrilineally inherited).

People of Arab descent matrilineally are not officially listed as Arabs as a person's race in Singapore, until 2010, was determined by his father's race.