History of measurement units of length referred to above and the Mesopotamian cubit were used in the 3rd millennium BC and are the earliest known units used by ancient peoples to measure length. The units of length used in ancient India included the dhanus, or dhanush (bow), the krosa (cry, or cow-call) and the yojana (stage). The common cubit was the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. It was divided into the span of the hand or the length between the tip of little finger to the tip of the thumb (one-half cubit), the palm
Yup'ik clothing Yup'ik) measurement from the tip of the thumb to tip of index finger when each is stretched out away from the other; "tekneq" (in Yup'ik) measurement being the width of the last section of one’s index finger; "tumagneq" (in Yup'ik) measurement of the width of the palm (flattened and with the fingers and thumb held together); "tusneq" (in Yup'ik) measurement being the width from the outside edge of one should to the outside edge of the other; "yegyameg" (in Cup'ig) from elbow (measuring to tip of hand). The primary subsistence activity for the Yup'ik is fishing, though hunting supplements the