The legendary Y-shaped Taino snuff tube, from which the history of European snuff culture started.

http://www.artvalue.com/auctionresult--taino-culture-1000-puerto-rico-snuff-tube-2638936.htm

Super cool! Such an insane auction bid estimate on it though.

I imagined it to be more simple than that. I wonder what the “face” on it represents.

I think I know now. The face on the tube is a zemis - a Taino idol - who was an assistant which helped the user of the cohoba snuff to talk to gods.