Misleading information about an old picture

There is some confusion about the dog Musti imported from Siberia during the early 1900s.

The text aboute this picture raises questions: It does not say where in Western Siberia the dog was obtained, or under what conditions the dog lived. It also raises the question to which Samoyed nation this dog belonged and why the person who imported this dog, Captain Labourn Popham, was there. So it seems to be the story again of all those unknown imports at the end of the 19th century.

That picture of the laborn pophams import flourish in many places in stories about the breed's history and is referred to in many modern writwers story to carry the name Musti, we can not find pro for the namne Musti is correkt or not for the dog on the picture, but many people of modern days writes the name Musti together with that picture. And what is it for a dogs, what is it called, if not Musti? Did this dog come in to any breeding program at all? Is it a he or she. Do anyone know?

Were ther two dogs with this name? Capten Labourn Popham imported a dog wid name Musti 1894 and Lady Stilwell imported a dog from russia named Musti which she mated with Neva, Neva was born as late as 1907. This should mean that it flourishes two dogs of the same name in the historical writings. We need to pull together and sort this out? Lady Stilwells dog is an ordinary dog behind today's population but went Capten Labourn Popham imported dog into a breeding program at all? What we can gather from the historical writings seems distinguish some years between these imports. How do you interpret this?T he picture is out of the book "The samoyed" by Marion Keyte-Perry, Arctic kennel. 

Above: This shows what many of us thought, that this dog is not found in the pedigreebooks behind the breed. 

This image appears frequently in discussions online. Often this dog is stated to be the Musti how was one of the founders of the breed, although it could be proven that the picture and the name Musti (as a founder) do not belong together. 

The dog on the picture was imported in 1894, but the founder Musti wasn't imported in 1894 but in 1893. If the dog on the picture would have been the founder Musti, it would be logical that the name "Musti" was written on the picture instead the text "the type I want".

Musti was one of the founders of the breed, but the picture above is probably not the Musti that is behind the establishment of the breed. In the original source for this image, no name is given for this image. The picture only shows a dog that is said to have come from Siberia to England and in other sources it is said that Popham took the dog to Scotland. From the information in the older English literature, it is clear that this dog was never taken into breeding and is therefore not the dog Musti that appears far back in our pedigrees. 

Judging from the appearance, it is of the smaller variety of dogs that were either fur dogs (clothes were made from them) or else they were kept as part of the reindeer husbandry. It is a deviant type of dog compared to the larger hunting and draft dogs that are largely behind the establishment of the breed.

The appearance of Laborn Popham's import also differs greatly from all other dogs from the same era, which is why this picture should not be used as a guideline for how the breed should be preserved and what appearance today's dogs should have. 

Above: The source of the image at the top.

In 2013, Camilla Nyström asked Sarha De Mounch in the FB group Samyed History what she knows about this as she is the owns the page Oldsams wher this picture and the name Musti was connected for the first time. Sarha replied as follows:

Sarah de Monchy: Hi Camilla, everything published on the oldsams.info website has been Pieter Keijzer's work except for the article 'On the preservation of a cultural heritage' of which I wrote the introduction and part II. I looked up in Pieter's database what information he filled in on the name Musti. Apparently he got to the same spot as you have arrived now. He only entered the name but no further information, even not whether Musti was an import, owner or relatives...