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The scene is a poignant valentine to her matrilineage and to how she was shaped by the embellishments that came before.

She has amassed an impressive haul, predominantly focused on female artists, which she describes as a “matrilineage through global art history”.

My mother is Jewish only on her father’s side, a lack of matrilineage that renders me gentile to all but the most liberal wing of the rabbinate.

Using mitochondrial DNA analysis that traced Washington’s matrilineage, African Ancestry inferred that the actor shared some similarity to a Mende or Temne person or persons living in Sierra Leone.

On top of that, the prevalence of female remains with ornaments compared to male remains suggested women were held in high regard, reinforcing the idea of matrilineage.