The phrase "a little assemblage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small collection or gathering of items or people.
Example: "In the corner of the room, there was a little assemblage of books that caught my eye."
Alternatives: "a small collection" or "a tiny gathering".
The goofy little assemblage suddenly suggested a chain of global sorrow, from the Chinese laborer on the plastic quacker assembly line, to the one who sewed and glued it, to the boys on the Corniche selling it, to Beirut babies yet to be born that might someday play with one.
They put a morbid spin on neat little assemblages of everyday images — a tube of toothpaste, a banana peel, cigarettes, a Rolex.
"I started picking up colored trash and making little assemblages".
Since these little assemblages of fairly arbitrary glyphs are my stock in trade, I'm curious, and request elaboration.
The materials that make up Paul Pascal Theriault's little assemblages at the Los Angeles gallery Grice Bench can be found in trash cans just about anywhere: cigarette packs, paper cups, plastic spoons, dirty napkins, sandwich wrappers, rubber bands, nail polish bottles and Band-Aids -- name brand and generic.
The relatively small animal bone assemblage (a little over 500 bone fragments) recovered from the 1993 and 1994 excavations and analysed by Dobney and Jacques provides a picture in which the bones of domestic caprines (goats and sheep) dominate.
Then, in the Whitney Biennial, he gave us something a little different, a mixed-media assemblage.
A single green jelly shoe, an empty bottle of bleach, rusty lighters and a cruddy washing-up brush are all utilised by the artist and designer to create attractive abstract arrangements, a little like the early sculptural assemblages of Tony Cragg.
The ceviches ($16 to $19) were lovely assemblages of fish, but the sauces seemed a little wan.
The playbook for this universe expansion and eventual assemblage is of course "The Avengers," which piled on the characters and offered a little something for everyone with the likes of Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and Mark Ruffalo's Incredible Hulk.
