This study focuses on embodied uses of recognitional demonstratives. While multimodal conversation analytic studies have shown how gesture and speech interact in the elaboration of exophoric references, little attention has been given to the multimodal configuration of other types of referential actions. Based on a video-recorded corpus of professional meetings held in French, this qualitative study shows that a subtype of deictic references, namely recognitional references, are frequently associated with iconic gestures, thus challenging the traditional distinction between exophoric and endophoric uses of deixis.