This curiously constituted pedigree is known as the matriarchate, an ancient social system only retained in Western Sumatra, and among certain South American tribes.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
There is no Sumatran nobility, and although the hereditary chief of a clan is invested with official authority, the stringent regulations of the matriarchate acknowledge no superiority of social status as an appanage of his power.
"Through the Malay Archipelago"
Emily Richings
And in a matriarchate we should undoubtedly hear of the Eternal Masculine.
"The Glands Regulating Personality"
Louis Berman, M.D.