Printed cloth (kanga) (mid 20th century)

A rectangular machine-printed white cotton cloth (kanga), with a continuous dark green and black border with repeating mango and cashew motifs in yellow and black. A central, rectangular design shows a mango tree with a ladder propped against its trunk. Just above the centre of the lower border is an inscription in Kiswahili written in the Roman script: MWEMBE TAYARI "The mangoes are ready".