Prince of Spires
Istar
You can actually find something similar in old fishing communities here in the Netherlands. Not so much the entire society being matriarchal. But in a lot of families the family heirlooms would be passed down the maternal line, since the men were the ones who went out to sea and stood a big chance of not living all that long.As for your OP gender roles. Polynesian society was frequently matriarchal - not least because the male warriors didn't live long enough to take up administrative roles.