The composite Keck spectrum of the host galaxy of the GRB 971214. The top panel shows the original data, with the locations of the prominent night sky (n.s.) emission lines as indicated. The bottom panel shows the same spectrum smoothed with a Gaussian with sigma = 5 Angstroms, which is approximately equal to the effective instrumental resolution. Locations of several absorption features commonly seen in the spectra of z > 3 galaxies are indicated. The redshift, z = 3.418, has been derived from the mean point of the Ly alpha emission and absorption features, as described in the paper.