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 which can be transformed into geometrically pleasing patterns that adorn squirrel parkas or become the basis of circles used for ceremonial headdresses. This knuckle is the middle [intermediate] phalanges of index finger and the “knuckle length” measure (not fingerbreadth) is a common unit in the Yup’ik measurement system. Yup'ik non-standard measurement units of length: "aaggarner" (in Cup'ig) measurement, the distance from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger with fingers spread out; "angvaneq" (in Yup'ik) measurement, the distance from the center of the chest (or the armpit ?) to the end of the fingertips of