Afro pick

A comb with metal teeth (sometimes a fan-style afro pick) is scraped along the texture in a set, syncopated rhythm.

African-American men and women began wearing their hair naturally (unprocessed) in large Afros, sometimes ornamented with Afro picks made from wood or plastic.

Particularly popular in the African-American community of the late 1960s, the hairstyle is often shaped and maintained with the assistance of a wide-toothed comb colloquially known as an afro pick.

Great fleecy puffs of the soft wool work themselves out from all over their bodies and are combed off with a variety of tools - oversized steel-toothed combs, Afro picks or even angel-food cake cutters.

The long, wide teeth of the afro pick or afro comb were designed to dig down to the scalp allowing the hair roots to be stretched straight into a desired style or shape using a picking motion.

Vendors lined the sidewalks with tables where they hawked their wares: paintings, elaborately carved Afro picks, politically inspired jewelry like brightly colored enamel brooches with rendering of Malcolm X or Angela Davis.

Asked about the President's announced policy of focusing on dealers and users, one steerer, a tall, husky man with an Afro pick in his hair and a length of 2 by 4 in his hand, said: "Hey, there's no work.

The Black Panthers, Dr. Dre and strange science join forces in his sculpture titled "The Chronicle," a giant Afro pick with a raised fist for a handle and slides of ethnological objects projected onto its surface.

Mr. Feather jumps onto the helicopter's landing gear as it flies away, and Undercover Brother uses his afro picks to impale Mr. Feather in the buttocks, causing him to fall into the water where he is eaten by a shark.