A second factor is the maintenance of ties with the maternal clan.

Some of the Senegambian kings belonging to the Guelowar maternal clan can be found below.

Around the 17th century, there were three main branches of the Guelowar maternal clan in the Serer kingdoms.

Little difference was found between the maternal clans in the four provinces.

That was the Narcheska's maternal clan, and among the Outislanders, her significant family line.

For nearly six hundred years, these three maternal clans engaged in dynastic wars among themselves.

Males are obligated to their maternal clans and it is not unusual for a husband to leave his family to help his mother's kin.

The Creek had a matrilineal culture in which a person's place and status were determined by their maternal clan.

He would be away from family and the Slow Talking Dineh, the brothers and sisters of his maternal clan.

The Tokoor (or Tokor) is the head of the maternal clan usually an elderly man.