ABSTRACT The people of Minangkabau recognize high heirlooms, namely assets that are received from generation to generation in a people who are related to the blood of the mother or matrilineal lineage. High heirlooms can be in the form of land, rice fields, fields and rumah gadang, which are inherited from mamak to nephews. With the existence of the term ganggam bauntuak in high inheritanc…