The nuclear family depicted acts as a call for the end of matrilineality. Both matrilineality and patrilineality are important in Serer custom. Those that practise matrilineality share many cultural similarities with the Nair caste. Both patrilineality and matrilineality are types of unilineal descent. Matrilineality here includes kinship and social organization, inheritance and property rights. Tuareg women have high status compared with their Arab counterparts (see matrilineality). Due to matrilineality, they have maintained their claims to their ancestral thrones. Mosuo matrilineality is largely based on the woman's role as head of the household.