Percy Coriat (1898-1960) ran away from school at 16 years old in 1914 to join the British Military.  He joined the Sudan Political Service in 1922. He spent 1922-1931, as an administrator among the Nuer, and was the first British official who became fully conversant in Nuer. He took a Nuer wife, for whom he exchanged full bridewealth cattle. However, in addition to acquiring local Nuer relative and friends, and like many others in his administrative position, he also enforced colonial authority. A notable example was the Pyramid of Deng Kur, Southern Sudan, built by the Nuer Prophet Ngundeng and his son. A key symbol of Nuer resistance to British rule, the pyramid was blown-up on the orders of colonial officer Percy Coriat in 1928, shortly after he took a photograph of it. After his time with the Nuer, Coriat spent a short time in El Obeid and then elsewhere in Sudan up to 1948. His photographs donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum record his post and travels in Sudan/South Sudan.